Twenty years ago, the U.S. Congress instructed NASA to find 90% of near-Earth asteroids threatening Earth. They've made ...

Not to let Japan grab all the extraterrestrial glory, NASA completed its own seven-year OSIRIS REx mission to retrieve a sample of the asteroid Bennu — the most dangerous known asteroid in the ...

It reports, names and numbers new discoveries. Multiple observatories ... working on planetary defense options in the case of a dangerous asteroid. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission ...

China's space agency says it has launched a spacecraft that promises to return samples from a pair of asteroids near Mars and yield "groundbreaking discoveries and expand humanity's knowledge of the ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every ... have the capability to protect ourselves from something like a dangerous asteroid impact … What an amazing thing. As a dry run for future ...

It reports, names and numbers new discoveries. Multiple observatories ... working on planetary defense options in the case of a dangerous asteroid. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission ...

This means that if a dangerous asteroid were ever detected heading ... helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today.

Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth known as the so-called "city killer." "This one got a lot of attention because it rose to a threat level that we just have not seen ...

The YR4 asteroid is currently the most dangerous space object near Earth, according to NASA, and its impact on the planet would have the same power as a nuclear bomb. While the chance of an impact ...

However, identifying and tracking these asteroids is an important step in protecting the Earth against the threat of larger and potentially more dangerous impacts. NASA recently predicted the ...

Nathan Moore of the Sandia National Laboratories details a possible new method to stop a dangerous asteroid from hitting the earth: a burst of X-rays from a nuclear explosion. RASCOE: Perhaps ...