The Minor Planet Center had put off assigning a designation to 2026 QQ8 while it was unclear whether the object was space junk or natural. We look at the September and October follow-up observations ...

Hera's view shows the side of Didymos that NASA's spacecraft never saw before the crash. The "backside" looks remarkably ...

Earth has a second moon now. Unfortunately, it's not nearly as impressive as the one we've been looking at for billions of ...

Miscellaneous First close-up asteroid image as ESA spacecraft built by OHB approaches historic rendezvous with the Didymos ...

Dimorphos, which orbits Didymos, was struck by NASA's DART spacecraft in 2022, altering its orbit. Now, Hera has given us a ...

Simulations show that targeting different sides of an irregular asteroid can change its deflection nearly fivefold. A faster ...

Earth has a new moon, but don’t get too attached. Earth has a new moon, but don’t get too attached. Our planet’s gravity ...

Europe’s Hera spacecraft has captured its first clear view of two asteroids involved in NASA’s historic 2022 experiment to redirect a potentially dangerous space rock. Now approaching the pair, Hera ...

Asteroid flyby 2026 VA completed its closest approach to Earth at 3.2 lunar distances in early November 2, 2026, with under 24 hours of advance warning. The Chelyabinsk-class rock’s MOID of 0.0015 AU ...

The asteroid that sweeps closest to Earth is not necessarily the cheapest one to visit. A rock that passes within easy ...

Did comets seed life on Earth? It's unlikely, a new study from the University of Cambridge says. It would have been a very ...

SARASOTA, Fla. ( WWSB) - A car-sized asteroid nicknamed a “ghost rock” is expected to pass closer to Earth than the Moon late ...