If an asteroid was ever threatening Earth, the best way to stop it might be with a nuclear explosion, according to a new ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

NASA has confirmed that the 1,200-foot Apophis asteroid — one of the largest near-Earth objects ever tracked — will pass ...

A Japanese space probe performed a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid on Sunday in a test mission for technology that could help ...

Rare images taken by a Japanese space probe during a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid have revealed that the space rock ...

Unlike NASA's approach of launching two separate spacecraft, China reportedly plans to send its observer and impactor ...

A NASA satellite just woke up from hibernation in deep space. Here is what it can tell us - The probe is six billion miles ...

A Chinese probe is set for a historic touchdown on asteroid Kamoʻoalewa, which may have been blasted away from Earth’s Moon ...

NASA’s exploration roadmap extends far beyond the International Space Station. Over the next several ...

A flyby conducted by the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 uncovered the asteroid's strange shape. Data gathered by the probe ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft revealed that a bizarre wobbling, peanut-shaped asteroid holds surprising clues about ancient water ...

NEW YORK — A large asteroid will zip past Earth this weekend, but don’t worry: It poses no danger. The space rock — 1997 NC1 ...