the space agency will live-stream the DART test’s final approach. During this time, the spacecraft will slam into the smaller asteroid, hopefully changing its orbit by a very small margin.

But it wasn’t a shooting star. It was a dishwasher-size capsule filled with bits of ancient asteroid—priceless matter from ...

A scathing new report points to unclear protocols and multiple failures to raise alarms at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto ...

The 2020 mini-moon was eventually identified as a rocket booster from the 1966 Surveyor 2 Centaur launch. But ATLAS reports this new mini-moon is likely to be a real asteroid, which is simply ...

So we should probably get to know them a little bit, yeah? The biggest one is Asteroid 2020 WG. It's nearly the size of a skyscraper. It will probably make its closest approach at around 2 million ...

The Taurid Meteoroid Stream, which is possibly responsible for the famous Tunguska and Chelyabinsk impacts, probably doesn't hide a civilization-killing asteroid ... a survey in 2020 cataloged ...

Hiding somewhere in the gloom of space, there is a gigantic asteroid on a collision course with our planet. If we don’t spot it and somehow thwart its arrival, it will pierce Earth’s ...

Nobody has mined an asteroid yet, though NASA punched one in 2020 to grab scientific samples ... previously told Live Science ...