A meteor cluster reveals an asteroid disintegrating near the Sun. These observations help uncover hidden asteroids and ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has captured imagery of all of Asteroid Bennu over a four-hour-and-11-minute period. See it rotate in the time-lapse video. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center There's 1 ...

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In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the real thing, crashing a spacecraft into asteroid Dimorphos to prove that we don’t have to ...

Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on from its arrival to Earth, that sample has yielded some insights about what ...

A new study adds to a growing body of evidence that suggests asteroid impacts played a critical role in the emergence of life on our planet. Reading time 3 minutes Early Earth was a brutally hot, ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) - Researchers at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory are delving into the origins of the asteroid 16 Psyche. Large craters on the asteroid may offer crucial ...

Asteroid mining technology is transforming how we think about space exploration and resource acquisition. By targeting near-Earth objects rich in platinum-group metals and water, these innovations aim ...

Many people remember where they were when Harry Stamper told A.J. Frost to take care of Liv Tyler and then saved the world in the movie Armageddon. It was the ultimate sacrifice, and one that the ...

NASA's DART mission, which tested a planetary defense strategy, successfully changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022. The mission also unexpectedly altered the orbit of Dimorphos's larger ...

Dimorphos, on the lower right, surrounded by debris moments after DART's collision in September 2022. The asteroid's larger companion, Didymos, is on the left. ASI / NASA Four years ago, NASA ...