On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...

CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...

Deflecting asteroids by running spaceships into them may sound like science fiction, but it's quite real. And it's quite a ...

The asteroid Dimorphos, left, is shown with its larger companion Didymos in space as it blasts dust and boulders in a lopsided debris cone following the NASA DART mission on Sept. 26, 2022. Credit: ...

NASA is studying interstellar object 3I/ATLAS to refine its planetary defence systems, using the comet's rare trajectory as a ...

An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18. The video in the media player above is from a related report. It will pass within 1.2 million miles of our ...

According to NASA, "Asteroid 2024 YR4 is now too far away to observe with either space or ground-based telescopes. The space ...

While humanity has determined how to mind-control beetles and extinguish fire with sound waves, it has yet to devise a surefooted plan for dealing with an asteroid collision, a procrastination that ...

NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from ...