Mercury, Venus, and Saturn put on an early-evening display in the west, while Jupiter dominates the rest of the night.

Asteroids are not just random rocks — some are massive, fast, strangely shaped, or on trajectories that make scientists pay ...

When we look up at the night sky, we tend to see asteroids as simple, wandering rocks—the leftover debris from […] ...

Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...

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

How space dogfighting games evolved from vector lines to virtual cockpits.

In national security space, “dim objects” typically refer to satellites or debris that emit little energy and are hard to see with traditional sensors. Detecting and characterizing them is already ...

Technological advancements in various fields of science are shattering what some scientists once deemed impossible. In recent years, researchers have mitigated the existential threat of asteroids, ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks to astronomer Sarah Greenstreet about her team's new discovery of the fastest-spinning large asteroid known to man.

The indie game developer Michael Prymus has announced the modern space shooter game Astro Busters, which is said to have ...

Unistellar's citizen scientists are using their smart telescopes to engage in planetary defense, research and observational astronomy.

A Sydney Ph.D. student has recreated a tiny piece of the universe inside a bottle in her laboratory, producing cosmic dust ...