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

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

NASA's DART mission proved we are able to change an asteroid's path by smashing a spacecraft into it, but exactly where we ...

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

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

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 ...

Asteroid 2022 YS5 is a building-sized asteroid that is scheduled to make a close approach to Earth on July 17, capturing the attention of astronomers, scientists, and space agencies worldwide.

The asteroid Dimorphos, left, is shown with its larger companion Didymos in space as it blasts dust and boulders in a lopsided debris cone following the NASA DART mission on Sept. 26, 2022. Credit: ...

The label " space rock " feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window ...

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.