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

NASA Planetary Scientist Noah Petro dishes on what it took plan the impressive touch-and-go return mission, why much of the sample will be preserved for future generations of humanity, the best-case ...

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by ...

NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft lander is designed for flight on Saturn's moon Titan. See a "half-scale Dragonfly lander model" in tests at NASA Langley. Credit: Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory M ...

A new NASA authorization bill moving through the U.S. Senate would extend the International Space Station’s life among other directives.

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.

In 2022, NASA conducted an experiment to see if they could protect Earth from massive killer space rocks. The scientist intentionally crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid named Dimorphos ...

NASA has ruled out any chance that an asteroid called 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in 2032. Last year, the uncertainty ...

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

NASA warns that more than 15,000 asteroids capable of destroying cities remain undetected and that Earth has no defense against impact.

NASA could soon be scrambling to shore up the U.S.’s presence in low-Earth orbit, thanks to a key Senate committee that wants the space agency to extend the life of the International Space Station ...