During a House Committee on Space, Science and Technology hearing, experts discussed the state of NASA's planetary defense capabilities.

Other federal science organizations haven't been spared, either — places like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

The European Space Agency shared a similar risk assessment of its ... While the asteroid won't again be observable from Earth until June 2028, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will be able ...

NASA’s Risk Assessment NASA classifies any asteroid as potentially hazardous if it exceeds 100 feet (30 meters) in diameter and comes within 5 million miles (8 million km) of Earth's orbit.

Co-orbital asteroids – space rocks that travel alongside planets without fully orbiting them – are notoriously difficult to ...

Earth is perfectly safe from a menacing asteroid known as 2024 YR4 that is big enough to level a city, but the moon? Not so ...

On December 22, 2032, the Moon may face a significant event as asteroid 2024 YR4, discovered by the James Webb telescope, is ...

NASA reports a 250-ft building-sized asteroid, 2015 XR1, is passing Earth today at an incredible speed of 45,529 km/h.

That’s why NASA is launching ... bomb near the asteroid to vaporize part of its surface and push it off course. A nuclear explosion on the asteroid surface itself would risk creating a shotgun ...

The asteroid ... risk to Earth—and to modify that risk, if necessary. Already, space agencies are testing the procedures and technologies needed to neutralize an asteroid’s threat. In 2022 ...

If signed into law as written, the White House's proposal to slash nearly 25 percent from NASA's budget would have some dire ...

WASHINGTON — A House hearing about how NASA is dealing with the threat posed by asteroid impacts turned into a discussion about a very different threat: the impact of proposed NASA budget cuts.