This stunning satellite image of Ouarzazate, Morocco, was taken by Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, did more than shove a small asteroid into a tighter loop around its ...

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

Left unchecked, the same supply-chain constraints and unit-economic moats that advantage hyperscalers terrestrially will reassert themselves in orbit. Arguably they already have, and without ...

Debris flying immediately after DART collided with Dimorphos. (NASA DART team and LICIACube) In 2022, NASA made history, deliberately smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter ...

The European Space Agency (Esa) has lost contact with the Coronagraph spacecraft of its Proba-3 mission after a power failure ...

Microscopic crystals extracted from meteorites could help settle a debate about the birth of our patch of the Milky Way.

In the distant reaches of the solar system are many icy objects that resemble snowmen. Now, a new study reveals the simple ...

Remember 3I/ATLAS? Yes, the interstellar comet that made plenty of headlines in 2025 is still romping through our solar ...