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

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

A new study shows NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART mission subtly changed an asteroid system’s orbit around the Sun.

Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

In September 2022 NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. Called Dimorphos, the rock is the smaller asteroid in a binary ...

NASA’s NEO Surveyor telescope will launch in 2027 to find dangerous asteroids that current telescopes miss, strengthening planetary defense.

In 2022, NASA conducted an experiment to see if they could protect Earth from massive killer space rocks. The scientist ...

NASA’s Artemis restructuring removes the Artemis III lunar landing, targets two Moon missions in 2028, and reflects growing concern about China’s lunar timeline.

For a while, NASA's future looked to be on shaky ground, but this new proposal seems like a fresh vote of confidence.