NASA’s anti-asteroid DART mission sends back its first images
NASA’s DART spacecraft which is on its way to crash into an asteroid has sent back its first images, confirming that its camera is operating well.
There’s a weird asteroid shaped like a bone whipping around our sun
Astronomers have got their closest look yet at an unusually shaped asteroid orbiting the sun in the asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars.
There’s a slim chance asteroid Bennu will collide with Earth in 2300
NASA researchers predict there is a very small chance that asteroid Bennu, which is 500 meters wide, could collide with Earth in the future.
How to watch NASA bring home a piece of asteroid on Monday
OSIRIS-REx is the first NASA craft to visit an asteroid and collected a sample. This week, it will begin its journey home to Earth, and you can watch it live.
NASA to roleplay what would happen if an asteroid struck Earth
This week, space agencies from around the world will drop everything to figure out an emergency response to our planet being struck by an enormous asteroid.
NASA spacecraft prepares to visit the metal asteroid Psyche
NASA will soon be visiting asteroid Psyche, which is composed of iron and nickel and has been dubbed the ‘$10,000 quadrillion asteroid.’
Good news: The Earth won’t be impacted by a 1,100-foot-long asteroid after all
A huge asteroid that gained notoriety due to its potential to impact the planet won’t strike us after all, new data shows.
NASA wants us to know that IRL ‘Armageddon’ is at least 100 years away
Maybe one day we’ll send a group of oil rig workers off to space on an ill-advised mission to detonate an asteroid from the inside, but it’s not going to…
Huge, speedy asteroid to pass close to Earth next week
As asteroid will be whipping past Earth on March 21, coming within just five times the distance between the Earth and the moon.
Hayabusa2 capsule returns with first-ever gas sample from deep space
Scientists in Japan have opened a capsule recently returned by Hayabusa2 after an incredibly challenging sample-collection mission in deep space.