Ill-informed, "not-very-smart" so-called experts are playing out many disaster scenarios in 2012. However, NASA “debunks” all of these doomsday predictions such as the Mayan calendar, killer asteroids, Planet X, solar storms, and various other unscientific-based ones.

The U.S. space agency NASA announced on June 13, 2011, that it is ready to test its new upper stage rocket that will propel the United States past low-Earth orbit and toward the planets of our Solar System.

The NASA Dawn spacecraft has taken its first picture of the nearing asteroid Vesta. The image was taken about 752,000 miles from the asteroid. See the image here.

The WISE mission by NASA completed a full map of the entire sky over the past year. Now, NASA is releasing about half of the images sent back from the spacecraft – all for you to see.

A New York professor has an idea that may help to deflect any asteroid that is on a head-on collision with Earth. He is testing his idea, which includes a solar sail, sunlight, and a warmed up asteroid, with the help of NASA.

Scientists found that  Asteroid 2008 TC3 is really composed of many different types of meteorites, containing a diverse amount of materials. NASA states they contain chemicals that form the building blocks of life here on Earth.

After two asteroids just missed hitting Earth on Wednesday, September 8, 2010, NASA continues to look into better techniques at identifying near-Earth objects (NEOs), such as asteroids. A NASA panel is considering ways to protect our home planet from such impacts.  

NASA announced that two asteroids will pass inside the orbit of the Moon on Wednesday, September 8, 2010. NASA reassures everyone there is a 0% chance that either will hit us.

The European Space Agency spacecraft Rosetta took detailed images of the asteroid Lutetia as it flew past the "deeply pockmarked, irregular rock" that is probably a left-over piece from the formation of the Solar System over 4.6 billion years ago.  

The U.S. space agency NASA issued an announcement on June 29, 2010, that it is looking for a heavy-lift rocket to help the United States reach the Moon, asteroids, Mars, and other far-flung destinations in our Solar System. Do you have what it takes to build such a vehicle?