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

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

NASA slammed a spaceship into an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza in an attempt to alter its course. The ...

Though July's Buck Moon will begin to wane soon, the month's calendar of celestial events has only just begun.

NASA has issued an alert regarding a massive airplane-sized asteroid, 2019 NW5, expected to pass closely by Earth today.

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

NASA's Lucy mission captured the highest resolution image yet of Donaldjohanson, the uniquely shaped asteroid.

When NASA steered its Dart probe into an asteroid, it was supposed to determine how much it could be deflected. The consequences were unexpectedly severe.

Here’s how to see the buck moon and Perseid meteor shower in North Carolina. The buck moon will reach its peak at 4:37 p.m.

The National Weather Service said fireballs were spotted across the Southeast, including Charleston, South Carolina, a day ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...