Landing 12 people on the moon remains one of ... pushed to scrap the program and signed off on the SLS rocket instead. Trump ...

Hera took off for the asteroid moon Dimorphos on October 7, 2024, and will investigate the changes it underwent after being struck by the DART mission in 2022. During its journey, it clicked surreal ...

It’s accompanied by a couple of CubeSats, and they’re going out to the asteroid Dimorphos. They’re going to look at the size and shape of the crater that DART left and whether DART has also affected ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

The asteroid, named 2024 VX3, will pass us at a distance of 92,100 miles, closer than the moon's 238,900-mile orbit.

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before ...

Asteroid 2024 UQ entered Earth’s atmosphere hours after detection. 2024 UQ was too small for major impact, disintegrated off ...

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

Project A119 was a Cold War-era response to Sputnik, with the goal of using a nuclear explosion in space to scare the Soviets ...

New research explores if the moon was captured by Earth or formed by a collision. Scientists weigh theories, analyzing lunar ...

had discovered the asteroid on October 22. Within days of its detection, 2024 UQ disintegrated in the atmosphere over the Pacific Ocean, off California, creating an "imminent impactor," or an ...

It's here to stay, or at least until Thanksgiving week. But it's not a moon. In fact, it's an asteroid named 2024 PT5. It entered Earth's orbit on Sept. 29 and will be taking up residency in our ...