This handout picture obtained by the Italian Space Agency�s LICIACube shows NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission just before its closest approach to the Dimorphos asteroid, on ...
NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the ...
The Geminid meteor shower this year is set to peak at almost the same time as December's full moon, which could make for ...
The Geminids, one of the final meteor showers of 2024 to reach its annual peak, is also considered among astronomers to be the one of the year's best.
The project, which gave astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects, ended its mission and re-entered the atmosphere ...
"The significance of this discovery lies in the fact that it would confirm the existence of internal energy sources that ...
The stadium-size asteroid is considered a "potentially hazardous object," but poses no threat to Earth this year.
A small asteroid barreled toward Earth, creating a harmless fireball across the skies above eastern Russia on Tuesday, ...
People in northern Siberia saw a fireball streak through the sky on Tuesday as a small asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere ...
NASA Asteroid Watch shared in an alert on X that the asteroid “was first observed with the University of Arizona's Bok ...
Ivezić is the 59-year-old director of the Vera Rubin Observatory, a $1 billion telescope that the United States has been ...
The asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere at 11:15 a.m. ET over Yakutia in northeastern Siberia, creating a massive fireball.