A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

Hera will investigate the consequences of the targeted impact of the Dart probe into an asteroid moon. It has now gained ...

GRAND FORKS, ND — Astronomers have turned their high-powered telescopes toward a 100-meter wide asteroid hurtling in its orbit through the Milky Way galaxy and are hoping it doesn’t collide wi ...

It fell to level 1 (green, “normal”) on Feb. 20 and has now been labeled level 0 (white, “no hazard”). “Asteroid 2024 YR4 has now been reassigned to Torino Scale Level Zero as additional ...

A White House science advisor recently war-gamed with space agency heads worldwide to devise a planet-saving defense to an ...

The probe will fly past the asteroid at a distance of 0.6 miles, using two black-and-white cameras to snap pictures. Zooming by the object at thousands of miles per hour, the spacecraft will have ...

The dinosaurs, of course, could do nothing about the killer asteroid, other than presumably waving their tiny arms at the oncoming doom. But if they did have a space program — and yes ...

It seems to me that President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are doing a pretty fine job of destroying our country on the inside. Whatever Musk wants, Trump makes happen. I hope there is something to ...