On March 29, 1807, the German astronomer Heinrich Olbers discovered the asteroid Vesta. [‘On This Day in Space’ Video Series ...
On March 31, 2026, Earth will witness three near-Earth asteroid flybys. From a 36-foot bus-sized rock to a 72-foot ...
On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of ...
Blue Origin and NASA are teaming up on a new mission to protect Earth from asteroids, building on NASA's DART success.
A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases—the molecular "letters" of life—have been detected in samples from the ...
NASA confirms the DART mission changed an asteroid system’s orbit around the Sun - the first time humans moved a celestial ...
It may sound fanciful, but a Los Angeles-based company says it has conceived of a plan to fly out to a smallish, near-Earth ...
Rock-a-bye, baby. With scientists warning that Earth could be susceptible to thousands of undetected asteroids, Jeff Bezos’ ...
Two asteroids namely VO142 and 2026 EZ2 will fly past safely on March 17. NASA is monitoring both closely for science and safety.
This Hubble Space Telescope image of Vesta shows another of the most massive asteroids in the asteroid belt, a region between Mars and Jupiter. The images are helping astronomers plan for the Dawn ...
Schematic of a proposed space mining setup that literally bags asteroids. Credit: TransAstra. The aerospace industry has a ...
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