As best as anyone can tell, if any hazardously sized asteroid were to hit Earth in the relatively near future, it would most ...

But more recently, the car spawned a high-profile case of mistaken identity as space observers mistook it for an asteroid ...

REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against ...

"Thanks for all your effort," wrote the first moonwalker. Neil Armstrong was appreciative, but as explained in his ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impacted the asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022. The collision changed Dimorphos's orbit successfully, and now scientists hope to study the ...

A 2% chance of an asteroid strike is "uncommon," officials say. The chances of an asteroid striking Earth within the next decade has doubled in a matter of weeks, according to NASA astronomers.

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impacted the asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022. The collision changed Dimorphos's orbit successfully, and now scientists hope to study the ...

Mike Collins and Buzz Aldrin thanked Clark McClelland for his mission patch ideas. | Credit: Goldberg Coins & Collectibles Separately, Armstrong inscribed one of his early NASA portraits to ...

SCIENTISTS ARE TURNING TO THE JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE TO TRACK AN ASTEROID THAT THEY SAY COULD BE HEADED STRAIGHT FOR EARTH WITHIN THE NEXT DECADE. WE SHOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT THIS, RIGHT? NASA SAYS ...