Which asteroids pose the greatest threat to Earth? How likely are they to strike, and what level of destruction could they ...

Large asteroids are considered a potential threat to the Earth. That's why scientists closely monitor them and record every ...

The asteroid belt is messy and sometimes a threat to our solar system’s planets, so on this episode of Dead Planets Society it’s time to tidy it up into a single asteroid world ...

With a look back at 2024, NASA is celebrating its many innovative and inspiring accomplishments this year, including, for the ...

Radiation is a primary concern for long-duration human spaceflight, such as the planned trips to Mars, which are the stated ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon, no one could anticipate the profound changes that happened next.

A tad bigger than Mercury, Titan is more like a planet than a Moon ... It went straight for a distant asteroid called Bennu, circled it for a bit, and then returned home, bringing with it some ...

The samples were collected by Japan’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, which launched in December 2014 and successfully rendezvoused with Ryugu in June 2018.

A sample of the asteroid Ryugu returned to Earth by the Hayabusa2 mission was rapidly colonized by terrestrial microorganisms ...

The microbial life turned out to have terrestrial origins, indicating that the asteroid sample was contaminated during its time on our planet ... from the asteroid Bennu and dropped them off ...

Over four billion years ago, the Red Planet may have been red hot. A 4.45-billion-year-old grain of the mineral zircon in a Martian meteorite found in the Sahara Desert in 2011 indicates Mars may ...