A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...
The DART mission achieved its goal of changing one asteroid’s orbit around another, but questions remain about why the orbit ...
On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...
In a new paper, scientists argued that our best option is to blow up asteroid 2024 YR4 as part of a "kinetic disruption ...
NASA could soon trial a new defence strategy to prevent a giant asteroid hurtling towards the Moon and posing a huge risk to ...
Smacking a planet-threatening asteroid comes with big responsibility.If we slam an impactor into an asteroid in exactly the wrong spot, the space rock may pass through a "gravitational keyhole" that ...
A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...
An asteroid hurtling through space could hit the moon in 2032 – and scientists are weighing how best to deal with it.
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 ...
Such a collision could have devastating consequences for satellites and astronauts in space, prompting a group of scientists ...