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

NASA’s kinetic impact test successfully changed an asteroid’s orbit, with upcoming missions from ESA, JAXA, and new low-cost ...

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 ...

Last week, a handful of watching telescopes captured something crashing into the moon. Then over the weekend, a second object ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Bursts of light captured crashing into the moon last week were caused by dual asteroid strikes against the lunar surface that ...