A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the ...

The asteroid is named 2025 OW and measures approximately 210 feet in length, according to NASA. It is set to pass Earth on ...

According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

It ultimately was successful, with NASA correctly predicting that it is possible to redirect celestial objects. The asteroid ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it’s the only one we have, NASA Administrator Bill ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

Since a trip to Mars is years and a whole lot of scientific development away, NASA is focusing on asteroids. If you've always dreamed of saving the planet from an asteroid, now is your chance.

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This timelapse of the asteroid Donaldjohanson was made from a series of images NASA’s Lucy spacecraft captured during its April 20 flyby. This timelapse shows images captured approximately every ...

NASA is collaborating with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on a space mission to launch a first-of-its-kind ...