An infrared sensor crucial for Nasas future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design test.

To begin with, NASA is planning to capture and relocate an asteroid by 2025 ...

Experts have assessed what needs to be done when an asteroid approaches earth, like the one in February, when one slammed into our atmosphere and exploded high over Russia's Ural region, injuring

NASA cowboys up with plans to lasso an asteroid. Enlarge A computer-generated view of Asteroid 4179 Toutatis, using observations by a NASA observatory in California. (NASA/Courtesy) PETALUMA, California -- "What do you want, America? Do you want an ...

The U.S.space agency is planning for a robotic spaceship to capture a small asteroid and park it near the moon for astronauts to explore, a top senator disclosed Friday.

Most scientists agree that an asteroid impact killed off almost all the dinosaurs and some 70 percent of all other species living on Earth about 66 million years ago.

A huge 100-kg rock used by a Spanish farmer for more than three decades to press ham has turned out to be an asteroid worth a whopping $5.3 million.Faustino Asensio Lopez found the massi...

Shyam Bhaskaran is a part of Nasas Outer Planets Navigation Group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He is also leading a team which is navigating a spacecraft to Comet Hartley-2.

Like many of his colleagues, Indian origin deep space navigator Shyam Bhaskaran devotes a great deal of time to crafting, and contemplating, computer-generated 3D models of asteroids.