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

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

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

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

"The world must be able to execute a nuclear deflection mission with high confidence, yet cannot conduct a real-world test in ...

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

After graduating from Long Beach State in 2017, Brennon began working as an intern at the Long Beach Press-Telegram before moving to the Torrance Daily Breeze to serve as a news assistant. He departed ...

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 ...

Molly Wasser of NASA's Planetary Science Division said the fireball was seen at 9:37 p.m. and detected by two NASA meteor ...

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 ...

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

Revised National Space Strategy could decide whether we continue on a steady path or match the ambition Europe has now embraced ...