NASA’s asteroid impact changed Dimorphos’s orbit, but another strange shift followed. Scientists are still searching for ...

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, should it be deflected or blown up? A paper from NASA scientists and ...

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

Scientists are closely monitoring a potential asteroid impact on the moon, specifically asteroid 2024 YR4, which could ...

On Nov. 24, 2021, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) launched. The spacecraft was on its way to Dimorphos, part of a ...

An asteroid hurtling through space could hit the moon in 2032 – and scientists are weighing how best to deal with it.

A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...

Astronomers are considering blowing up the “city killer” asteroid, estimated to have a small chance of crashing onto the Moon ...

The region, known as the asteroid belt, is home to an estimated 1.9 million asteroids that are larger than 1 kilometer in diameter. This makes up the vast majority of the solar system’s space rocks.

The little space rock, called 2025 TF, safely passed within roughly 250 miles (400 km) of our planet on Tuesday (Sept. 30) at ...

Engineers and scientists are actively preparing strategies to prevent asteroid 2024 YR4 from colliding with the moon.

An asteroid known as 2024 YR4 could be just a few years away from colliding with the moon, and such an impact could have serious consequences.