CubeSats make it affordable for universities and private companies to launch a satellite into space.

Any time you see a headline about an asteroid heading towards the planet, you can relax. Big and small asteroids fly by Earth ...

The Hera mission will explore an asteroid deflection test. It also gives startups a chance to refine their technologies.

A team of engineers and planetary scientists at Western University's Institute for Earth and Space Exploration, in Canada, ...

Here's a look at the last 25 years of spaceflight from 1999 to 2024 during the first 25 years of Space.com. From the ...

Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion using x-ray pulses to push an asteroid-like rock away in space-like conditions.

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...

The European Space Agency is sending a probe to get a closer look at the asteroid Dimorphos, which had its orbit altered by ...

Prof Alan Fitzsimons is an astronomer from Queen’s University Belfast and has been assisting with the asteroid mission for ...

While we are fascinated (sometimes alarmed) by space rocks hurtling towards Earth, we often fail to distinguish between asteroids, meteoroids, and meteors. Here's a rundown of their differences.