The interstellar visitor posed no threat to our planet, but experts thought it could fight dangerous asteroids looking to ...

PASADENA, Calif. — After NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams returned to Earth on Tuesday, the space agency is gearing up for another project: a spacecraft targeting asteroids. A ...

A NASA planetary defense mission will ride to space atop a SpaceX rocket two and a half years from now. NEO Surveyor will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Space Coast no earlier than ...

The comet, called 3I/ATLAS, is the third known interstellar object that has come through our solar system. As it flies deeper ...

NASA is studying interstellar object 3I/ATLAS to refine its planetary defence systems, using the comet's rare trajectory as a ...

NASA’s Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor space telescope is currently under construction at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Once launched and operational, it will identify ...

A small asteroid measuring roughly 19 meters across has quietly shadowed Earth for approximately 65 years, orbiting alongside ...

A few months ago, an asteroid created quite a buzz. At one point, asteroid 2024 YR4 had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth, creating plenty of headlines about its potential impact. The threat is all but ...

In late December astronomers using the Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) telescope in Chile observed a new asteroid near our planet. Dubbed 2024 YR4, the object—somewhere between ...

An asteroid the size of a hockey pitch that was first spotted by NASA researchers on Christmas Day has a one-in-83 risk of slamming into Earth in late 2032. The 196-foot space rock is 27 million miles ...

These so-called Venus co-orbital asteroids are currently undetected because of their alignment in the sky but could one day ...