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

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

The object is hurtling towards the Earth at a zippy 12,616 miles per hour, according to data from the space agency.

A NASA planetary expert has revealed that humankind has no way to protect against a city-killer asteroid if it were to head towards Earth.

A NASA planetary defense officer warns thousands of near-Earth asteroids capable of destroying a city remain undetected.

Asteroid 2025 YU15 will sweep past Earth at remarkable speed this February, drawing global attention and raising questions about how closely scientists are watching the next celestial visitor.

"We don’t know where they are,” said NASA’s planetary defense officer Kelly Fast at the AAAS conference in Arizona this week.

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...

The universe might have far more amino acids lying around than we realized, which gives life itself far more chances to begin ...

“What keeps me up at night is the asteroids we don’t know about," said NASA's planetary defense chief.

NASA scientists recently expressed alarm over the potential threat posed by approximately 15,000 undetected asteroids capable ...

NASA has raised red flags over growing asteroid threats that could potentially damage the Earth.To one’s surprise, astronomers are unaware of the location of thousands ...