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 ...

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

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

For weeks, Elena Adams has been leading her team at the Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, through ...

Scientists caution that asteroid deflection must be precise, as striking the wrong spot risks sending it through a gravitational keyhole that sets up a future collision with Earth. Using lessons from ...

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.

Selecting the right spot to smash a spacecraft into the surface of a hazardous asteroid to deflect it must be done with great ...