Famed Queen guitarist and citizen astronomer Brian May collaborated with NASA's asteroid mission OSIRIS-REx, helping ...

Sometimes you do a thing just to see what happens afterwards, such is the case of NASA's DART mission which launched a ...

An asteroid the size of three football fields will pass near Earth in three years, giving scientists a rare chance to study a colossal space rock from close range. Named Apophis — after the ancient ...

Artemis II was the first time people climbed onboard the Orion capsule, went to space, circled the Moon, came back, and made ...

An asteroid with the potential to trigger a catastrophic event will pass Earth at an alarmingly close distance, prompting NASA to classify the space rock as "hazardous". The asteroid, named Apophis ...

Get full access to The Daily Beast for $1 It first became a threat when it was thought to have a historically high chance of colliding with Earth. Tobias Roetsch/Getty Images Researchers have a sci-fi ...

Japanese scientists are readying a mission to Mars's moons to retrieve samples that could help unlock the origins of the Solar System and life on Earth, in what aims to be the first round trip to the ...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers are developing three-dimensional simulations to examine how a ...

In one month, the European Space Agency’s Hera mission will make history. Moving at 12 kilometers per second relative to Earth, the mission is about to rendezvous with the binary Dimorphos-Didymos ...

Bennu can preserve that record because it is a highly primitive asteroid. Its material dates back to the birth of the Solar System around 4.5 billion years ago and has changed little since then, ...

A recent NASA study has revealed that a near-Earth asteroid discovered nearly three decades ago is not, in fact, an asteroid, but rather an unusual object classified as a “dark comet.” The object, ...