See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

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

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 ...

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

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

"This is four times more people than saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Think about what a world event this is going to be." ...

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

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

Our first attempt at shifting the orbit of an asteroid has provided crucial insight into how we could safely deflect a space ...

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

NASA's interim leader Sean Duffy didn't make it through a single sentence in his announcement that the agency's Mars ...