Scientists discover binary asteroids near Earth can trade rocks and dust through slow collisions, revealing clues about asteroid evolution.
Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...
NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...
About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic ...
Asteroids with tiny moons may be quietly trading material across space. Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed faint ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 is big and dangerous enough that it has been dubbed a "city killer." There were concerns that the asteroid ...
NASA warns that more than 15,000 asteroids capable of destroying cities remain undetected and that Earth has no defense against impact.
The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.
Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...