NASA on Thursday walked back a prediction that an asteroid had a "small, but notable" chance of impacting Earth or the moon ...

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

Earthlings aren't the only ones safe from a city-wrecking-size asteroid. Future lunar inhabitants won't have to worry about a ...

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have ruled out the possibility that asteroid ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has helped scientists determine that asteroid 2024 YR4, which previously had a 4.3% chance of crashing into our moon, will not impact our lunar comp ...

NASA says there's now zero chance that asteroid 2024 YR4 will crash into the moon in 2032. The space agency had been ...

NASA’s NEO Surveyor telescope will launch in 2027 to find dangerous asteroids that current telescopes miss, strengthening ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

There's some welcome news for astronomers as a threatening asteroid is no longer expected to impact the moon. At one point, Asteroid 2024 YR4 was considered to be the most dangerous asteroid ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

Scientists demonstrated that an Earthly extremophile might withstand being ejected from the Red Planet on debris spewed into ...

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