Following NASA's DART mission that intentionally impacted asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, over two million pounds of space debris were generated. This...

When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon called Dimorphos in 2022, the moon was significantly...

\ Future Space The countdown has begun: NASA has announced that the 350-meter asteroid Apophis will be heading for Earth[...]

NASA has issued an alert about a 720-foot asteroid named 2024 ON, which is approaching Earth at 25,000 miles per hour. The asteroid, expected to make...

An international team of 45 researchers studying meteor showers has found that not all comets crumble the same way when they approach the Sun. In a...

What’s the difference between an asteroid and a comet? A comet is basically a dirty iceball composed of rock and ice. The classic image is of a...

Phaethon is a celestial body that defies definition. It isn’t quite an asteroid but isn’t exactly a comet either. It has properties of both...

Around 4 billion years ago, an asteroid hit the Jupiter moon Ganymede. Now, a Kobe University researcher realized that the Solar System's biggest...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to...

Engineers at Johns Hopkins University have made exciting discoveries about how materials like sand and rock behave when hit by extreme forces. This...