The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs didn’t keep life down for long. New research shows that microscopic plankton began evolving into new species within just a few thousand years—and ...

NASA’s DART mission successfully altered an asteroid’s orbit, but scientists now say the impact also shifted the path of the ...

Didymos forms part of a binary system with the smaller asteroid Dimorphos.

A mysterious metal-rich asteroid called Psyche has been baffling scientists for over two centuries, and its true origin ...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test did more than shove a small moonlet off its local path. New peer-reviewed research confirms that the September 2022 collision measurably shifted the entire ...

NASA has been tracking objects in space for years. However, the James Webb Telescope detected an asteroid that came ...

NASA confirms the DART mission changed an asteroid system’s orbit around the Sun - the first time humans moved a celestial body in space.

The surface of asteroid Bennu has long left questions for scientists after a NASA planetary science mission showed the asteroid was actually more rough and jagged than previously expected.

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More than two centuries after asteroid 16 Psyche was first identified, scientists are still trying to determine how it formed.Located in the main ...

A fast-moving asteroid weighing roughly seven tons streaked across the sky, lighting up the night across multiple states and drawing widespread attention from observers on the ground.

Northeast Ohio is still buzzing after a 6-foot, 17,000-pound meteor soared across the sky on Tuesday morning before breaking ...