Experts have warned that NASA's asteroid deflection system could inadvertently send one towards Earth. The Double Asteroid ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system on Sept. 26, ...

To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will impact a 'moonlet' in the Didymos asteroid system to attempt to alter its ...

When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...

When a massive asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, the solution seems straightforward; smash a spacecraft into it and knock it off course.

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

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 ...

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 ...