The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples from asteroid Bennu in 2023, scientists discovered something extraordinary: ...
Imagine a rock the size of a football stadium hurtling through space at thousands of miles per hour, heading straight for a major city, and we have no way to stop it. NASA has just issued a sobering ...
The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.
Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...
A NASA scientist has warned that thousands of city-killing asteroids could strike Earth, and there’s currently no defense humanity could use to stop them.
Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.
Asteroid 2025 YU15 will sweep past Earth at remarkable speed this February, drawing global attention and raising questions about how closely scientists are watching the next celestial visitor.