Humanity has taken a 'notable step forward' in its ability to deflect asteroids heading towards Earth, a new study reveals.

On 12 February 2026, the French company Arianespace successfully launched 32 Amazon LEO satellites with its Ariane 64 mega-rocket from the European spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The satellites ...

Since December 2024, the US space agency has been tracking the 'city-killer' asteroid, dubbed '2024 YR4', as it whizzes ...

Space is not as empty as it looks. Right now, as you read this, NASA scientists are actively watching dozens of objects ...

The University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx mission has been given a side job during its seven-year cruise to study and sample an asteroid named Bennu. The NASA spacecraft’s cameras will be looking for ...

NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Around 15 percent of near-Earth asteroids have small moons, which suggests binary systems are fairly common. Many of the larger asteroid pairs have likely formed ...

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

Did the ingredients for life as we know it exist in the early solar system? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences hopes to address as a team of ...

Understanding the make-up of asteroids also matters for the future of exploration: some asteroids may contain metals, ...

MIO: Memories in Orbit is influenced by the platforming challenges of Hollow Knight. By Christopher Byrd A few hours into MIO: Memories in Orbit, I wanted to bail. I didn’t think I had it in me to go ...

EO Johnson Business Technologies has acquired Orbit Technology, a company based in Iron Mountain, Michigan. The acquisition expands EO Johnson's services into Michigan's Upper Peninsula and enhances ...