Surrounded by engineers, NASA chief Charles Bolden inspected a prototype spacecraft engine that could power an audacious mission to lasso an asteroid and tow it closer to Earth for astronauts to explore.Full story
Human exploration of deep space is looking more and more like a tag-team affair, with NASA jetting off to asteroids and Mars while the private sector sets up shop on the moon. Full story
NASA's plan to lasso an asteroid for astronauts as a deep-space dry run for a future mission to Mars has some members of Congress wondering if the space agency would be better off setting its sights on the moon instead. Full story
The giant asteroid, named 1998 QE2, will fly by at an estimated 3.6 million miles from Earth. NBC’s Brian Williams reports.
NBC's Peter Alexander gives an update from Washington, D.C. on the White House's budget battle and space exploration plan.
White House Director of Science and Technology Policy John Holdren told the House Science Committee that there is little risk of a continent-destroying asteroid hitting earth… but there is still risk. He also explains why scientists were unable to detect the asteroid that hit Russia in February.
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A sub-atomic particle known as the ‘God particle’ has been discovered. The particle is thought to give everything in the universe its mass. Space.com Managing Editor Tariq Malik discusses the discovery with MSNBC’s Alex Witt.
An artist's conception shows how solar energy could be used to process material on a near-Earth asteroid.
An artist's concept of a Solar Electric Propulsion System is seen in this NASA handout image released April 11, 2013. The use of robotics and advanced SEP technologies like this concept of an SEP-based spacecraft during NASA missions to find, rendezvous, capture and relocate an asteroid to a stable
As they approach a near-Earth object, astronauts prepare an airbag plus sensor docking and securing system, as shown in this artist's conception.
The passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system, is depicted in this handout image from NASA. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout
