To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...

CV will pass Earth at a distance of 4,760,000 km, over five times the Earth-Moon distance. Three other asteroids passed by ...

On the world's first Asteroid Day, Nina Burleigh discovers that Nasa has already commissioned a team of 'planetary defenders' ...

Scientists have long thought that the South Pole-Aitken basin was formed by a shallow-angle impact, but new research suggests ...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully integrated the mission's deployable aperture cover - a ...

There is an estimated 2.3% chance that the 2024 YR4 asteroid is heading our way. Here's everything you need to know about the ...

Artist's conception of the DART spacecraft approaching the Didymos asteroid system before deflecting the Dimorphos moonlet ...

This mission further aims at investigating how the Sun’s corona transforms into the solar wind, helping improve space weather ...

“We [will be able to] move quickly and map out very large areas of the sky,” adds Josh Schlieder, the telescope’s wide-field ...

space telescope resting in the airtight, climate-controlled clean-room at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight ... to test out all of its components in a real space-like operating environment,” says ...

YR4 was first reported to the Minor Planet Center – the international clearing house for small body positional measurements – ...