The Latest Breaking News on Space

DART will hit Dimorphos at four miles per second just 11km above the Indian Ocean

The mission is designed to see how easy it would be to stop a sizeable rock from hitting Earth.

It will be another 107 years before Jupiter comes this close to Earth

Jupiter was already going to appear bigger and brighter thanks to a phenomenon that happens every 13 months, but NASA says the view will be "extraordinary" this time because it coincides with another celestial event.

If an asteroid was hurtling towards Earth, like the one that wiped out the dinosaurs, could we stop it? That's what NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (or DART) is trying to work out.

Scottish stargazers are in for a treat as the gas giant makes its closest approach to Earth since 1963.

A woman has gone viral on TikTok after pleading with everyone to go outside once night falls

On September 26 at 11.15pm UTC, NASA’s DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) will be the first to deliberately and measurably change the motion of a significant body in our Solar System. In other words, it will smash into an asteroid.

In the 1930s, a group of Paisley 'buddies' took one small step for mankind by pioneering a new rocket technology that would one day make Neil Armstrong the first man to step on the lunar surface.