Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the ...

New GBL calculation method provides improved asteroid tracking accuracy and benefits astronomical research, including mapping ...

Alinda has made its closest approach to our planet in decades, and it's about to peak in brightness in a rare ...

Asteroid-detecting AI algorithms have already identified 27,000 new pieces of space debris, bringing the known number to 1.3 ...

Using AI training, researchers designed a "robot dog" that moves like a cat, and has no trouble navigating low-gravity ...

This is how debris finds itself languishing in space—and what some organizations are doing to mitigate the problem.

The main belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is so sparsely populated by asteroids that spacecraft can pass through it as though it were empty space. To describe the situation ...

Science greats such as Newton, Soldner, Darwin, and Einstein have identified and attempted to calculate GBL, but this new equation adds more accuracy than before. In part, this is done by ...

Several big missions are headed to space to enhance our understanding about planets, asteroids and the deep space.

The James Webb Space Telescope has found many small asteroids. Some are heading towards Earth. These asteroids are smaller than the dinosaur-killing ones. But they are still dangerous. A small ...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope now includes asteroids on its list of objects studied and secrets revealed. A team led by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge ...