For once, Earth isn’t the one in the crosshairs. NASA scientists have confirmed that a fast-moving asteroid first spotted by ...
Asteroid mining is moving from fiction to fact, here’s how missions and startups are redefining resource extraction beyond ...
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched down on the asteroid Bennu, scientists expected a gentle landing. Instead, the ...
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Earth's First Planetary Defense

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...
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The Moon was struck by two asteroids last week, and the activity was caught on camera by a Japanese astronomer. The impact ...
In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...
As 3I/ATLAS races through our solar system, NASA and Harvard take unprecedented action to study its bizarre anti-tail and erratic motion.
Unusually bright \"Halloween fireballs\" are linked to the Taurid Resonant Swarm, a debris cluster potentially containing ...
From the orbit of Mars, China's Tianwen-1 sent back new and intriguing images of our interstellar visitor. An animation shows ...
A spectacular sight has captured the attention of skywatchers across the US as astronomers track a rare and stunning comet-C/2025 K1 (ATLAS). Unlike most comets that typically shine green or blue ...
China became the first to capture and publicly release close-up images of interstellar object 3I/Atlas ahead of NASA, ...