NASA has spent decades obsessed with asteroids and for good reason. These ancient space rocks aren’t just debris; they’re ...

Sandia scientist John Sandusky believes he has found a way to put heliostats, which typically turn solar energy into ...

"In my opinion, planetary defense is an operational mission which should be formally tasked to U.S. Space Command." ...

NASA is closely tracking a large, 110-foot asteroid named 2025 OL1, which is currently heading towards Earth at a speed of nearly 17,000 miles per hour.

The space rock came as close as within 4.15 million miles from our planet, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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"It could represent some of the oldest and most pristine water ever observed, formed in another planetary system and ...

Ed Lu wants to save Earth from killer asteroids. Or at least, if there is a big space rock streaking our way, Dr. Lu, a former NASA astronaut with a doctorate in applied physics, wants to find it ...

Most of the 1,113,527 asteroids orbit the sun between Mars and Jupiter within the main asteroid belt. They range in size – from a whopping 329 miles in diameter to a comparatively measly 33 feet ...

These asteroids were likely around when our solar system was forming 4.5 billion years ago. They originated in a different star system.