The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
Deflecting asteroids by running spaceships into them may sound like science fiction, but it's quite real. And it's quite a ...
Astronomers have discovered asteroid 2025 SC79, a skyscraper-sized space rock orbiting the sun in just 128 days. the ...
A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...
NASA has warned of a new cosmic phenomenon that could affect Earth. It is neither the comet 3I/ATLAS, nor the already famous ...
Earth just got a new tag-along in space — a little asteroid named 2025 PN7. NASA confirmed this week that the rock, ...
NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from ...
A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...
The little space rock, called 2025 TF, safely passed within roughly 250 miles (400 km) of our planet on Tuesday (Sept. 30) at ...
NASA has activated its planetary defence network to monitor comet 3I/ATLAS, a rare interstellar object showing unusual ...
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 ...