Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3 percent chance of hitting Earth.

Space Beat host Rob Landers and space trends reporter Eric Lagatta discuss the plan and potential issues on this week's ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3% chance of ...

Building Nuclear Power in the U.S. Is Tough. NASA Wants to Do It on the Moon. Call it a nuclear moonshot: The U.S. aims to ...

The Global Burst Detection system, developed by Sandia and Los Alamos national laboratories, carries a suite of sensors and ...

If a huge asteroid smashes into the moon in 2032, the gigantic explosion would send debris streaming toward Earth that would threaten satellites and create a spectacular meteor shower, according to ...

The stark landscape of the Moon as viewed by the Apollo 12 astronauts on their return to Earth. NASA/The Planetary Society The first space race was about flags and footprints. Now, decades later, ...

New research suggests that there is a 90% chance that within the next decade, humanity could use a space or Earth-based ...

A second directive aims to speed up development of replacements for the ISS. Nuclear power on the moon is critical to the United States' space exploration and national security goals, and the U.S.