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

Planetary defense has moved from science fiction to a live engineering problem, and the stakes could not be higher. The ...

NASA is monitoring an asteroid approximately the size of an airplane as it prepares to pass by the Earth on March 21. The asteroid, which has been dubbed "2021 FH1," is estimated to be about 98 feet ...

Scientists led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found sugars essential for biology on Earth in the Bennu ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the small ...

NASA has tracked over 27,000 near-Earth objects, some over 1 kilometer in size. Several massive asteroids are expected to whiz close to Earth in the coming weeks, including one nearly the size of the ...