NASA's Orion spacecraft was moved seven miles to the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center Thursday, its ...

Capitol Police officers adjust security barriers around the East Plaza at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2025. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) One person critically injured in road ...

The asteroid belt is found orbiting between Mars and Jupiter and is a vast collection of rocks that is thought to be a planet that never formed. When our solar system formed 4.6 billion years ago, the ...

Young asteroids—which formed much later than those that were created during the formation of our solar system—are typically created when larger asteroids, planetesimals, or comets collide and break up ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

Let's bomb space: First discovered in December 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 is drawing growing attention from the international space community. Scientists are now exploring options to address this ...

Scientists are still concerned that asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon in the future One of the solutions suggested is nuking the asteroid to save the moon Scientists say the plan to use nuclear ...

Tiny pieces of glass found scattered across Australia have revealed evidence of a previously unknown giant asteroid impact. This discovery centers on a new type of tektite, a natural glass formed when ...

In a plan ripped straight from the script of the 1998 movie "Armageddon," scientists have suggested a simple, if violent, method of dealing with a troublesome asteroid. Just nuke it. But in this case, ...

Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm due to the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While Earth may no ...

A group of scientists including some NASA researchers have proposed a plan to send nuclear explosives to destroy asteroid 2024 YR4. Space Beat host Rob Landers and space trends reporter Eric Lagatta ...