NASA’s Psyche spacecraft has been firing its electric thrusters almost without a break since Sept. 28, and the agency says it ...

NASA's DART spacecraft collided with the asteroid Dimorphos at a speed of approximately 6 km/s. This was the first experiment ...

astronomers have identified a massive asteroid spinning faster than anyone could have imagined. The asteroid, with a diameter of 710 meters, completes a full rotation in just 1.9 minutes, far quicker ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A crop of asteroids discovered by the new Vera C. Rubin Observatory is wowing astronomers, with one of the space rocks spinning at ...

Astronomers using fresh data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory have uncovered an asteroid that defies usual planetary physics, spinning at a speed so fast it should technically be tearing itself ...

With a successful Mars gravity assist in its rearview mirror, NASA's Psyche spacecraft has fired up its thrusters and is ...

NASA sent a spacecraft to probe our solar system's most mysterious asteroids. The mission has now beamed back its first close-up views. The space agency's Lucy mission is en route to the ...

A Chinese-led international research team has identified the fastest-rotating near-Earth asteroid known to date and improved ...

Back in 2021 NASA launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission. Known the world over as the DART, it called for a spaceship to impact a distant asteroid at speeds of 14,000 mph (22,530 kph) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A recently discovered asteroid roughly the size of a commercial jet will pass within 1 lunar distance of Earth on Sept. 3. Here's ...

Space is a place that holds many mysteries, and astronomers make numerous discoveries every year. This was recently the case with the help of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which discovered an ...