NASA’s Planetary Defense team tracks thousands of near-Earth objects, but only a handful pose a real threat. These massive ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved asteroid moonlet Dimorphos "by a whopping 33 minutes," according to NASA. See the highlights here. Credit: NASA ...

Gaia’s full-sky survey generated a massive database tracking how asteroids reflect light as they rotate. These measurements, called light curves, reveal changes in brightness over time. When ...

On Jupiter’s moon Io—the solar system’s most volcanically active world—you’ll find the mountain Ionian Mons. Its height is estimated at nearly 8 miles. All in all, scientists have discovered more than ...

The moon is not so much the serene orb we clearly see in night skies a few nights a month but rather a noisy battleground ...

On October 30 and November 1, Daichi Fujii, an astronomy curator at the Hiratsuka City Museum in Japan, used his telescope to capture pinprick-sized flashes on the shaded side of the moon. Were the ...

Asteroid mining is moving from fiction to fact, here’s how missions and startups are redefining resource extraction beyond ...

The comet is the third interstellar object from deep space ever recorded to pass through Earth’s solar system.

Comet 3I/ATLAS, which made a close approach to the sun, has prompted lots of public interest. Kim Kardashian asked NASA's ...

Modern astronomy is giving us unprecedented views of the asteroids, comets, and other small bodies that litter our cosmic ...

In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...