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

Discovered in Niger in 2023, the rare chunk weighs 54 pounds and represents more than 6 percent of all Mars material on Earth ...

The smoking gun of the creation of lithium in explosions on white dwarf stars may have been found, in a spike of gamma rays ...

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 ...

Research from all publishers Recent investigations have reinforced the importance of debris disks as laboratories for planetary system evolution. For example, measurements by the New Horizons ...

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 ...

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

More information: Marina Coco et al, Planetary sunshade for solar geoengineering: Preliminary design of a precursor system and mission, Acta Astronautica (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2025.05.031 ...

The next big space threat isn't to Earth. It's to the Moon.

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

Last week the James Webb Space Telescope captured a direct image of what they believe to be a previously unknown exoplanet ...