NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office sounds like something out of a disaster movie, but its work is far more methodical than cinematic. Instead of scrambling at the last minute, the office ...

This is your routine near-Earth object flying past Earth, and this is exactly what the case is. 2003 LN6 is being observed by NASA ahead of its approach on June 18, when the space rock is going to fly ...

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks. The experiment ...

With scientists warning that Earth could be susceptible to thousands of undetected asteroids, Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin is developing a planetary defense program that could help protect us ...

NASA astronomers are studying interstellar object 3I/ATLAS, shown here in a YouTube about its path across the solar system. It has reportedly released a sudden burst of energy and strange emissions as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Apophis 2029 flyby could reveal asteroid surface shifts, spin changes and new lessons for planetary defense. (CREDIT: ...

Tuesday marks the 10th anniversary of International Asteroid Day. In the decade since the United Nations established the observance, scientists say Earth is better prepared to defend itself from the ...

HOUSTON—The NASA-led Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission continues to furnish data supporting work on strategies for diverting the course of large asteroids that could impact Earth, a ...

In September 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft rammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at nearly 15,000 miles per hour (24,000 kilometers per hour). The mission aimed to test whether NASA could one day ...

A spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch. The DART mission, or NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will lift off at 10:20 p.m. PT on November 23 aboard a ...