"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the ...

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

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

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

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

What was it like to track the rising danger of this asteroid, and to ultimately determine that it’d miss us? This is the ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...

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

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

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2025 MG1 is approaching. The space rock, roughly 130 feet wide, will pass Earth on July 12.

Around 2 billion years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest, or possibly even larger, struck Earth with catastrophic consequences. The Free Devort Impact in South Africa marks the largest ...