NASA has issued an alert regarding two substantial asteroids, (2025 OJ1) and (2019 CO1), scheduled for a close Earth flyby on ...

Starting in Fiscal 2028 – after NEO Surveyor’s planned launch – NASA’s planetary defense spending under Trump’s plan would fall from $346.7 million to $81 million.

NASA's DART asteroid mission impact was a success, but part of that success might've had to do with boulders ejected during the collision.

The new statistics, crunched by NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, still suggest the asteroid is much more likely to miss it. Even if it were to make contact, it wouldn't cause a ...

On Feb. 24, NASA announced an official "all clear" on social media, reporting the impact probability had dropped to just 0.004% and that the asteroid is "expected to safely pass by Earth in 2032." ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA is going after an asteroid this week like never before. It s launching a spacecraft to the exotic black rock named Bennu, vacuuming up handfuls of gravel from the surface, ...

Space & Spaceflight Deflecting a Killer Asteroid Is More Complicated Than NASA Thought Scientists still have much to learn about the potentially life-saving "kinetic impactor technique." ...

The asteroid Dimorphos, left, is shown with its larger companion Didymos in space as it blasts dust and boulders in a lopsided debris cone following the NASA DART mission on Sept. 26, 2022.

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope caught the latest glimpse in May of asteroid 2024 YR4, which led to the odds of it impacting the moon in 2032 to rise to 4.3%.

The space agency had considered attempting to capture an entire asteroid, but instead said in March it would pluck a 13-foot boulder from one during an unmanned space mission set for 2020.