NASA's MARVL project is developing a modular nuclear electric propulsion system for faster Mars travel. Robotic in-space assembly and advanced cooling tech could cut trip times in half.

According to NASA, an asteroid named 2024 YR 4 could hit Earth in December 2032. The space rock is between 130 feet and 330 feet in diameter. Experts estimate that there is a 1 in 83 chance that it ...

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NASA highlights some of the discoveries it has made on the Red Planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech ...

A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...

NASA is tracking asteroid 2024 YR4, which has a slight chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are refining its trajectory as it tops ESA's risk list.

A large asteroid could be heading toward Earth within the next decade, and there's a small chance it could strike the planet, according to NASA.

However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It ...

YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the ...