Sooner or later, a sizable asteroid could impact a populated area on Earth. How is the US, and the world, preparing?

China is planning to send a mission to hit an asteroid and change its orbit with a spacecraft to lower the risk of it ...

Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in space.

The threat of asteroid impacts on Earth is not fictional. To date, humans have discovered nearly 1.44 million small celestial ...

NASA proved for the first time that a small spacecraft can deflect an asteroid. The DART mission collided with Dimorphos, showing humanity can protect itself from cosmic disasters.

On September 4-5, during the Third International Conference on Deep Space Exploration (Tiandu) held in Hefei, Anhui, ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists’ minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...