The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution of the debris cloud created by the smash-up over the course of a month; ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was impacted by NASA DART mission. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li ...

Professor Alan Fitzsimmons has recently returned from ground control of the European Space Agency Hera mission at the ...

On November 24, 2021, NASA launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) on a long journey to the double asteroid ...

Efforts to protect Earth from asteroid impacts have made significant strides, notably with NASA’s DART mission, which successfully altered the orbit of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022.

Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.

With 2024 coming to a close, we look at the biggest space achievements of the year from NASA, SpaceX, China, and more.

From the mysterious Planet Nine to the prospect of a "human-caused meteor shower," space and physics editor Brandon Specktor ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched an augmented reality app meant to adverstise the Hera mission to the Dimorphos ...

NASA and European Space Agency collaborating on planetary defense missions to determine if we can deflect near-Earth objects away from Earth.

Spacecraft like DART could help us change the orbit and direction of potentially hazardous asteroids. Image source: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL But the fact that potentially hazardous asteroids do ...