NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (RAMSES) mission to the Apophis asteroid.

For that reason, researchers have put forth a number of possible plans for scientists to prevent a collision – the most prominent of which is to simply launch a bunch of nukes at the asteroid. In a ...

After mulling several different solutions, scientists have devised an unconventional method to stop the “city killer” space rock from hitting the moon — by blowing it up with nukes.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 was first detected by the Asteroid Terrestrial ... power a moon base that it plans to jointly operate with Russia. The United States plans to launch regular missions to the lunar ...

A small asteroid flew 266 miles over Antarctica. It was too small to pose a threat, but objects of that size can produce ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a 4% chance of colliding with Earth’s moon in 2032, and some scientists are considering whether they ...

If asteroid 2024 YR4 hits the Moon, it could launch dust and small rocks into space, creating micrometeoroid debris in low ...

In 2010, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) made history when its Hayabusa probe became the first spacecraft to not only land on and launch from an asteroid (Itokawa), but successfully ...

But China has announced that its space agency will mount its own DART-like mission to strike the roughly 100-foot-wide (30 meters) asteroid 2015 XF261, with the launch window opening as soon as 2027.

Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm due to the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While Earth may no ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...