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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system on Sept. 26, ...

When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was impacted by NASA DART mission. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li ...

In scientific terms, it is normal for some predictions to fail. Not so much in the how, but in the when. A few years ago, some astronomical experts predicted that an asteroid would ...

Since its discovery, astronomers have been frantically trying to gather as much information as they can about the newest ...

The American Apophis Strategy is simple, powerful, and cost-effective: keep OSIRIS-APEX on track and unleash Janus through a public-private partnership. This would put the U.S. in the lead — not just ...

Few cosmic visitors have captured the fascination of astronomers quite like the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS. Hurtling through ...

NASA's $10 billion space telescope studied the third interstellar object to enter the solar system, measuring the chemical ...

Called 3I/ATLAS, the object is only the third of its kind known to astronomers, and it’s likely been heading our way for ...

A telescope in Chile recently glimpsed 3I/ATLAS' glowing tail, which observations reveal has grown as the interstellar object cruises toward the sun.

Science is irrefutable. It is a field in which one must go with surgical precision and to achieve a minimum advance is already a synonym of success. Depending on the field in which ...