Spread the loveIn an exciting celestial event, a newly discovered asteroid, designated 2026 EG1, is set to make a close approach to Earth on the night of March 12, 2026. Measuring between 32 to 72 ...

"Follow the water" has been a guiding mantra of astrobiology, and even space exploration more generally, for decades. If you ...

According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

An oddly-behaving star led two UW astronomers to capture rare evidence of a collision between two planets in a distant solar ...

New observations have ruled out the chances of an asteroid hitting the moon in 2032, according to scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

NASA's DART mission launched from California changed not just the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit, but the larger Didymos' path around the sun.

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. The objective was to assess whether humanity could protect Earth from ...

Scientists expect to learn even more about the impact’s aftermath when the European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft reaches the asteroids in November. Dimorphos is 525 feet in diameter. Fast-spinning ...

The discovery of the fourth star was done through an algorithm called QUADCOR, which isolates the distinct spectral fingerprints of all four stars simultaneously. By detecting the individual signals, ...