Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

YR4 holds a 4 per cent chance of hitting the Moon. Discovered after it had already passed Earth, the asteroid's trajectory highlights the limitations of current Earth-based detection systems.

NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

NASA's DART spacecraft attempted to deflect an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. New work tracking the debris has found a few fairly large surprises.

A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.

The detection of 3I/ATLAS marks our solar system’s third time saying aloha to an interstellar visitor, following the ...