NASA has issued an alert about an impending asteroid, one as large as a skyscraper, that is on a trajectory towards our ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...

NASA is investing significant resources into asteroid defence, but its new protective system could have unintended ...

Asteroid 2025 FA22, measuring up to 951 feet across, will make a close approach to Earth early Thursday according to NASA ...

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 ...

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

Using insights from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), researchers have developed a tool that would reveal future ...

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

Scientists warn that deflecting asteroids could inadvertently direct them through gravitational keyholes, potentially causing delayed impacts on Earth.

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

China is advancing plans for a landmark planetary defense mission aimed at testing whether a spacecraft can alter the trajectory of a near-Earth object. The project seeks to launch a spacecraft that ...

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