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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...

Scientists are closely watching a newly discovered asteroid — 2024 YR4 — whose chances of hitting Earth just before Christmas in 2032 are rising. The asteroid 2024 YR4 was first spotted by the El ...

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 ...