New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes ...

SpaceX launches, NASA's Artemis II mission and a planetary collision are among the latest news updates in FLORIDA TODAY's 321 ...

China signals new target for 2027 asteroid deflection test China has identified a new target near-Earth asteroid for its first planetary defense kinetic test mission, which is scheduled to launch in ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission not only altered an asteroid’s orbit but, for the first time, a new study shows we also successfully changed the asteroids' path around the sun.

NASA’s planetary science program is still facing a funding shortfall that requires “strategic choices” about which missions to continue.

The world’s first full-scale planetary defense test is in motion. The mission is called DART and what scientists learn from it could save humankind from a future catastrophic event. Nancy Chabot is a ...

Suggested Citation: "4 Implications of Planetary Protection Category I Versus Category II for Small Body Missions." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2023. Planetary ...

I'm a planetary scientist who was born the year of Sputnik's launch. Over the course of my 40-year career, I've witnessed not one but at least five separate revolutions that fundamentally transformed ...

Small bodies in the solar system have preserved information from different eras of the evolution of our solar system, from the composition of the presolar nebula that is preserved in cometary nuclei ...