Fireball Flashes Above Ontario and Parts of the U.S. The bright meteor was the sixth object detected in space before striking Earth, the European Space Agency said.
The Mysterious Comets That Hide in the Asteroid Belt Comets normally fly in from the far reaches of space. Yet astronomers have found them seemingly misplaced in the asteroid belt. Why are they there?
‘Planet Killer’ Asteroid Spotted That Poses Distant Risk to Earth The space rock had been hidden by the glare of the sun, suggesting that more large asteroids are in a solar system region difficult to study from Earth.
Photos Show NASA’s DART Spacecraft Crashing Into Asteroid Astronomers on Earth — and a shoebox-size Italian spacecraft called LICIACube — captured the DART mission’s successful strike on Dimorphos.
NASA Smashes Into an Asteroid, Completing a Mission to Save a Future Day The DART spacecraft completed its 10-month journey to demonstrate a technique that could defend the planet from deadly space rocks in the future.