The dramatic mission to alter an asteroid’s trajectory created a debris trail stretching tens of thousands of miles behind the “moonlet” Dimorphos, according to NASA. Scientists say the ...

One of last year’s space highlights was the NASA DART mission’s collision with Dimorphos (seen right in the animation above), the small moon of the binary asteroid Didymos (seen left). The impact meas ...

Now, if someone asked me to describe the size of an asteroid (or anything, for that matter), penguins wouldn’t be the first ...

NASA gave special permission to the team to use the Deep Space Network, a system of three enormous radio dishes on Earth, to place a 1-million-mile long-distance call to the little spacecraft.

The best Google Easter eggs of 2022 (and a few early ones from 2023, for good measure) bring a dose of fun and whimsy to our favorite search engine.

Over the last few months, the proverbial ‘final frontier’ has very much been in the headlines.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact. Astronomers captured the scene millions of miles ...

The NASA spacecraft, currently en route to visit Jupiter’s mysterious Trojan asteroids, will fly past a tiny main belt asteroid in order to test an innovative tracking system. The target ...

after Lucy made the first of three planned Earth flybys that will help fling the spacecraft out toward the orbit of Jupiter. Related: NASA asteroid surveyor snaps stunning views of Earth and moon ...