NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a small chance of hitting the Moon in 2032, to refine its trajectory and improve prediction models.
NASA planetary defense experts report that mid-size near-Earth asteroids could cause regional damage, with detection and deflection remaining limited, according to New York Post and AAAS reports.
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) will provide insights far more precisely than ground telescopes can manage now, as the rock ...
NASA has begun another practice launch countdown for its first moonshot in decades with astronauts. The first test was halted ...
Artemis II, currently targeted for 2026, will send astronauts on a crewed mission around the Moon for the first time since 1972. They will not land, but they will travel deep into lunar orbit and ...
Sky watchers who get up in time on a morning in early March have a chance of spotting a special 'blood moon' eclipse this ...
Kelly Fast, a planetary defense officer at NASA, says there could be 15,000 undetected asteroids that have the potential to take out a city.
Scientists may be one step closer in their hunt for signs of past life on Mars after the Curiosity rover's latest find.
NASA has since downgraded that possibility to zero percent, but the asteroid continues to be tracked by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope this week as there's a 4 percent chance it could collide with ...
A “ring of fire” solar eclipse will be visible on Tuesday, with the best views in Antarctica and partial eclipse views in ...
NASA's Artemis 2 moon mission faces a new issue after a rocket test uncovered an issue with ground support equipment that ...