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 ...

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

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its ...

About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic ...

An asteroid, previously used by NASA for a planetary defence test, has been successfully shifted onto a slightly altered path around the sun, scientists reported on Friday. This landmark achievement ...

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.

NASA says an impact from its DART spacecraft changed the orbit of an asteroid for the first time ever, offering hope for planetary defense.

Reserachers gathered experimental data exploring whether bacteria could survive a journey between planets via an asteroid ...

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

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, did more than shove a small asteroid into a tighter loop around its ...