The DART mission achieved its goal of changing one asteroid’s orbit around another, but questions remain about why the orbit ...

NASA scientists are weighing a drastic plan to launch nuclear bombs at a “city killer” asteroid that could smash into the Moon in 2032.

A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...

Every so often, Jupiter's strong gravity sends an asteroid hurtling through the solar system, sometimes towards Earth. Last ...

The sneaky asteroid is from the Apollo cluster, a group of near-Earth asteroids that can occasionally get pretty close to us. It sped past at a break-neck 46,700 miles per hour, while it's believed to ...

The chance of a football field-sized asteroid striking Earth in 2032 has fallen to 0.001 per cent Scientists have finally given the all-clear to Earth from a newly discovered asteroid. After two ...

Our first attempt at shifting the orbit of an asteroid has provided crucial insight into how we could safely deflect a space ...

Observing 3I/ATLAS in this active phase will give some of the clearest insights yet into the mystery of interstellar comets.

Scientists are war-gaming humanity's worst nightmare: an asteroid with Earth's name on it. In April 2024, nearly 100 planetary defence experts gathered at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory to ...