Experts have warned that NASA's asteroid deflection system could inadvertently send one towards Earth. The Double Asteroid ...
Asteroid 2025 FA22, measuring up to 951 feet across, will make a close approach to Earth early Thursday according to NASA ...
Using insights from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), researchers have developed a tool that would reveal future ...
Scientists caution that asteroid deflection must be precise, as striking the wrong spot risks sending it through a gravitational keyhole that sets up a future collision with Earth. Using lessons from ...
New research warns that if we don't hit an asteroid in exactly the right spot, it could end up on a collision course with ...
When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...
Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in space.
To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...
China has unveiled its mission to impact deliberately a near-Earth asteroid by 2030 – a decisive step toward establishing its ...
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 ...