In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 MA90 is approaching. The space rock is roughly 280 feet in diameter. That’s about the ...

A large asteroid will pass close to Earth in July 2025. NASA and ISRO are closely monitoring its trajectory. The asteroid, ...

NASA has confirmed the approach of asteroid 2025 MA90, a space rock as tall as a 20-storey building, moving towards Earth at high speed.

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in ...

NASA reports that the space rock, measuring around 1,200 feet across, is expected to make its closest approach on Thursday, ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

It ultimately was successful, with NASA correctly predicting that it is possible to redirect celestial objects. The asteroid known as Dimorphos was approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, ...