Asteroid 2024 YR4 is big and dangerous enough that it has been dubbed a "city killer." There were concerns that the asteroid ...

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

Space is not as empty as it looks. Right now, as you read this, NASA scientists are actively watching dozens of objects ...

In September 2022 NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. Called Dimorphos, the rock is the smaller asteroid in a binary ...

For a while, NASA's future looked to be on shaky ground, but this new proposal seems like a fresh vote of confidence.

The Northrop Grumman CRS-24 mission will launch on April 8, 2026, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.

A new study shows that, not only did the agency’s 2022 DART mission shift the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos, it also changed ...

NASA’s NEO Surveyor telescope will launch in 2027 to find dangerous asteroids that current telescopes miss, strengthening planetary defense.

NASA on Thursday walked back a prediction that an asteroid had a "small, but notable" chance of impacting Earth or the moon in 2032 based on newly analyzed data.

NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory studies Earth’s exosphere, capturing ultraviolet images to monitor atmospheric ...

In 2022, NASA conducted an experiment to see if they could protect Earth from massive killer space rocks. The scientist ...

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.