NASA has issued a draft Request for Proposals to move a flown space vehicle, a step some lawmakers see as progress toward relocating Space Shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian Museum in Virginia to ...

Here's what scientists have now learned about the DART mission.

Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to ...

It's proposing two approaches: either shoot dangerous asteroids with an ion cannon — or ram it out of orbit. The post Jeff ...

NASA researchers explore a hybrid observatory using a space-based starshade and ground telescopes to improve direct imaging ...

NASA's moon landing program delay represents the latest in in technical, budgetary, workforce and public perception ...

Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed the first direct evidence that asteroids in a binary system can exchange rocks and dust. Slow moving debris from the asteroid Didymos appears to have struck ...

In 2022, NASA hit Dimorphos with a spacecraft. But looking back through the data, astronomers believe they have found ...

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

NASA says there's now zero chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into the moon in 2032. The space agency had been predicting a 4.3% chance of a direct hit.

Scientists discover binary asteroids near Earth can trade rocks and dust through slow collisions, revealing clues about ...