The United Arab Emirates will launch a mission to visit several asteroids later this decade on a Japanese H3 rocket.

The asteroid 16 Psyche ... as well as deputy project investigator for NASA's Lucy mission to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids. Why do scientists think Psyche used to be the core of a planet or protoplanet?

similar in appearance to those of NASA’s Lucy mission spacecraft. A parachute system, tested at high altitude last year, will be used to safely return the asteroid samples to Earth. The system ...

Works by Ada Limón and Peter Sís, Randy Cecil, Lucy Ruth Cummins and more depict the poetry, wonder and droll humor inspired ...

The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.

The Hera spacecraft, which took flight late Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness.

The asteroid Dimorphos had its 12-hour orbit shortened by a half-hour. Shortly after 7 pm EST, the DART spacecraft will smack ...

The mission is heading out into space to study the impact of NASA's successful high-speed collision with an asteroid in 2022.