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The launch of NASA’s unmanned DAWN spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to two asteroids thought to have been ...

Scientists have discovered a crater on the moon that's bigger than the Roman Colosseum, the result of a powerful impact two ...

Scientists say Mercury formed through a flurry of violent collisions between rocks and asteroids orbiting the Sun around 4.5 billion years ago.

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, set to launch at the end of August, is uniquely well placed to help us spot any dangerous rocks heading our way. At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the ...

Investing in interplanetary defense isn’t expensive, and it could save the planet. NASA has catalogued more than 40,000 asteroids whose paths approach Earth’s orbit. Here is where they are now.

There could be a catastrophic threat lurking in space right now. We might not know until it’s too late. Near Earth, there are likely more than 25,000 asteroids large enough to level a city, according ...

A model of the inner Solar System showing the asteroids discovered by Rubin in light teal. Known asteroids are dark blue. Around 11,000 asteroids have been discovered in the solar system by scientists ...

Located in Chile and launched in June 2025, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a device capable of detecting numerous celestial objects in the universe. And thanks to preliminary data, astronomers have ...

On Monday, a paper announcing that all four DNA bases had been found on an asteroid sparked a lot of headlines. But many of the headlines omitted a key word needed to put the discovery in context: ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the Solar System: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling from dust and rock. They’re time capsules, preserving clues about what the ...

More space technology must be developed to prevent "city-killing asteroids" from hitting Earth, experts recommended at a recent science conference. While the risk is low, mid-size asteroids near Earth ...