Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit Earth, but it has forced planetary defense experts to confront a different kind of worst case: ...

NASA's next lunar mission is just around the corner, and three companies are competing to provide the rover that the ...

From its first detection using an instrument designed in part by teams based in the Bay, to follow-up orbit analysis ...

We might go full “Armageddon” on asteroid 2024 YR4. After mulling several different solutions, scientists have devised an unconventional method to stop the “city killer” space rock from hitting the ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has popped up on the news again, offering both peril and opportunities, A few months ago, NASA noted that 2024 YR4 had a 3.1 percent chance of hitting the Earth in 2032. Since the ...

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 ...

NASA will not send humans to the moon in 2024, a deadline set by the Trump administration. In a briefing with reporters Tuesday, NASA said a manned mission to the moon would happen no earlier than ...

The delays elicited concern from industry experts, Congress, and NASA about SpaceX’s ability to land astronauts on the Moon ...

As NASA prepares for crewed Artemis missions, its astronauts are learning to use a new generation of spacesuits: the Axiom ...