NASA slammed a spaceship into an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza in an attempt to alter its course. The ...

It ultimately was successful, with NASA correctly predicting that it is possible to redirect celestial objects. The asteroid known as Dimorphos was approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, ...

Importantly, NASA says Dimorphos is not in fact hurtling toward Earth. It describes the asteroid moonlet as a small body just 530 feet in diameter that orbits a larger, 2,560-foot asteroid called ...

Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing ...

Mission control rooms rarely celebrate crash landings. But the collision of NASA’s DART spacecraft with an asteroid was a smashing success. At about 7:15 p.m. EDT on September 26, the spacecraft ...

NASA launches Psyche mission to metal-rich asteroid 08:53. Getting off to a ground-shaking start, NASA's $1.2 billion Psyche asteroid probe roared into space atop a Falcon Heavy rocket Friday ...

NASA Smashed Into an Asteroid in 2022. The Debris Could End Up Reaching Earth Rocks knocked off Dimorphos could come back to bite us in a few years—in the form of harmless meteors.

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...

NASA shuts down asteroid-hunting telescope, ... NASA decommissioned a nearly 15-year-old spacecraft that discovered 400 near-Earth ... and Teledyne Imaging Sensors is producing camera chips for ...

NASA Devised a Wild Plot to Capture an Asteroid and Save Humanity. It Almost Failed The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground.

Easter Sunday certainly hasn't been a day of rest for the astronomy community. All eyes are on NASA's asteroid-studying Lucy spacecraft, which should have had a close space rock encounter at 1:51 ...