When NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft collided with the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...

Researchers identified the likely planetary candidate’s infrared light after blocking out its host star’s overwhelming glare ...

How light is light? The James Webb Space Telescope has just been able to directly image a planet so light and faint that, in ...

Debris disks are circumstellar structures composed of dust and rocky debris generated by collisions among planetesimals and other small bodies. These disks offer a direct window into the dynamical ...

Faint booms from space help track incoming debris. But the path matters more than you think. Earth gains a little mass each year as space dust rains down from above, adding thousands of metric tons to ...

The James Webb telescope has made another stunning discovery -- this time of a massive planet that could potentially sustain ...

Earth is no longer at risk of a direct collision with the asteroid 2024 YR4, but an impact on the moon in 2032 could send ...

The space-based observatory has revolutionized the way we see space, and it can now add another remarkable accomplishment to ...

The graph below shows the total number of publications each year in Debris Disks and Planetary Systems. References [1] New Horizons Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter Observes Higher than ...