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

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

Explore Earth's cutting-edge defenses against asteroid impacts in this comprehensive overview. Learn how NASA and ESA are ...

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 ...

Everybody’s sad that the skies over Britain no longer boom to the sound of a passing Concorde. It’s not so much the lack of a superfast service to New York, but the more generalised regret that ...

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 ...

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 ...

NASA, which has waited more than 50 years to launch another human moon mission, will wait at least another month. Here's the ...

Artemis II echoes the Apollo-era missions that paved the way for the first moon landing — and sets the stage for what comes ...

NASA has released its monthly skywatching update on what to look out for over the coming weeks, and you can probably guess ...