There were concerns that Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon or Earth.

Nasa has been reporting on its first Earth defence mission - when they crashed a spaceship into a meteor to see if they could bash it away, if they needed to.

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

Satellite data shows rivers rise and fall less than expected while revealing hidden riverbed shapes and new clues about Earth’s water cycle.

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

More than half of the near-Earth objects large enough to destroy a city have never been spotted by any telescope on or off the planet. NASA estimates the total population of these objects at roughly ...

Residents of a California coastal community are begging for federal aid to stop a landslide from pushing their ritzy homes into the ocean. Residents of Rancho Palos Verdes - which is the wealthiest ...

The Livermore-raised author brings his novel Project Hail Mary to theaters in a sci-fi film starring Ryan Gosling.

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its ...

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After postponing launch opportunities in February and March, the agency determined that four astronauts could proceed toward the first crewed lunar journey in more than 50 years.

It's the first time a celestial body's orbit around the sun was deliberately changed. The asteroid that NASA's Dart ...