The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

Armageddon might not have a reputation as a scientifically accurate film. But scientists now say the Hollywood blockbuster ...

Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...

Only far smaller impacts have been observed directly. In 2013, a meteoroid weighing a few hundred kilograms struck the Moon, ...

January brought a wide range of thoughtful science conversations featuring researchers from the SETI Institute, spanning everything from hands-on planetary defense with citizen scientists to careful ...

An asteroid alert rarely starts with certainty. It begins with a faint point of light and a short run of observations, so ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has peered through the clouds of the Orion Nebula to spot stars blazing as they heat the area around them and blast apart molecules ...

Tech giants are gearing up for a series of potentially bitter legal battles over claims they used copyrighted material in training the latest generation of artificial intelligence ...

If the building-size asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the moon in December 2032, the impact will produce a bright flash that ...

Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...

Fireballs are bright meteors and can be yellow, blue, red, green and sometimes violet. Fast-moving meteors are frequently ...