Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, from Queen’s University Belfast, has recently returned from ground control of ESA’s Hera mission.

Asteroid-detecting AI algorithms have already identified 27,000 new pieces of space debris, bringing the known number to 1.3 ...

The JWST’s spectra data also showed the huge amount of various ices with different volatilities and how they are made. Chiron ...

An object that orbits in the space between Jupiter and Neptune has chemistry that could tell us more about the birth of the ...

Space agencies worldwide are gearing up missions in 2025 to expand humanity's horizons, from the moon and Mars to asteroids and beyond.

The spunky Lucy mission will make a second gravity assist of our world tonight as it heads off on its hunt for the solar ...

Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced in a post to X that the asteroid had arrived yesterday evening ... which heats up to extremely high temperatures and causes its outer layers to vaporize in a ...

If the International Asteroid Warning Group discovers a deadly projectile speeding Earthward, the U.N. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space — yes, that's a real agency, formed in 1959 ...

Scientists have discovered a series of celestial bodies that look like asteroids but behave and move through space like ...

As I write this, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is making its long journey to an asteroid named 16 Psyche. When it arrives, it may confirm the presence of minerals which, when multiplied by the current ...

Prof Fitzsimmons said while most large asteroids have now been discovered by astronomers, there is still a risk to Earth from ...