Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

Debris released from the asteroid Dimorphos during NASA's DART mission has a higher momentum and less random distribution ...

Researchers suspect that two meteorites found in the Sahara Desert in 2023 may originally have come from Mercury, which would make them the first identified fragments of the solar system’s innermost ...

A large piece of Mars is set for sale at Sotheby’s New York, with bidding starting at US$1.6 million ($2.43 million).

Asteroids don’t always need to head straight for Earth to draw global attention. The case of asteroid 2024 YR4 is proving ...

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In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...