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 ...

A massive asteroid, 2025 FA22, will safely pass Earth on September 18, 2025, at a distance of 4.6 million miles. Initially considered potentially haza ...

Scientists are still concerned that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon in the future One of the solutions suggested is nuking the asteroid to save the moon Scientists say the plan to use nuclear ...

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

A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...

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 ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...

An asteroid twice the size of a giraffe is due to pass closer to our planet than the moon today. The asteroid, named 2024 XH, is roughly 39 feet in diameter according to NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

A NASA planetary defense mission will ride to space atop a SpaceX rocket two and a half years from now. The agency announced on Friday (Feb. 21) that it has selected Elon Musk's company to launch its ...