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A movie still from Chicken Little.

Don't look up: Close encounters of the disaster movie kind

Illustration of NASA's DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency's (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system.

NASA spacecraft will reveal first look at an asteroid, then slam into it

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - SEPTEMBER 06: NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B after the launch was scrubbed at Kennedy Space Center on September 06, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA scrubbed the second attempt to launch Artemis I due to a hydrogen leak issue. The earliest they might try for another launch would be late September.

NASA waves off next Artemis I launch attempt due to tropical storm

Illustration of NASA's DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency's LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system.

What will be visible when the DART spacecraft crashes into a tiny asteroid

Illustration of DART, from behind the NEXT--C ion engine

The DART mission is about to collide with an asteroid. What to expect

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA - SEPTEMBER 06: NASA's Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B after the launch was scrubbed at Kennedy Space Center on September 06, 2022 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA scrubbed the second attempt to launch Artemis I due to a hydrogen leak issue. The earliest they might try for another launch would be late September.

Next launch attempt of Artemis I set for Tuesday, but could delay due to tropical depression

A bizarre fast radio burst came from a binary system, astronomers say

A dinosaur egg (Macroolithus yaotunensis). Credit Qiang Wang (Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Beijing, China), Fei Han, and Chen Wen (China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China).

Fossil egg analysis in China adds to debate of what may have caused dinosaurs' demise

Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev (C) and Dmitri Petelin (R) and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, members of the International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 68 main crew, walk to report to Russia's Roscosmos space agency head prior to the launch at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on September 21, 2022. - The trio is scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft on September 21. (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA / AFP) (Photo by NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images)

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