New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.

NASA’s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense ...

Scientists discover binary asteroids near Earth can trade rocks and dust through slow collisions, revealing clues about asteroid evolution.

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its ...

In September 2022 NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. Called Dimorphos, the rock is the smaller asteroid in a binary ...

In 2022, NASA hit Dimorphos with a spacecraft. But looking back through the data, astronomers believe they have found evidence of an impact event prior to the big test.

This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our ...

In a recent study accepted to Astronomy & Astrophysics, a team of researchers use a combination of space- and ground-based telescopes to examine a binary star system (two stars orbiting each other) in ...

Stars are the fundamental building blocks of our universe. Most stars host planets, like our sun hosts our solar system, and if you look more broadly, groups of stars make up huge structures such as ...