NASA slammed a spaceship into an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza in an attempt to alter its course. The ...

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, ...

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

NASA’s DART spacecraft (illustrated) just crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on purpose in the world’s first test of a strategy for planetary defense.

Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...

In September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully demonstrated how a fast-moving spacecraft could change an asteroid’s trajectory by crashing into it, potentially ...

NASA’s observations using Webb have provided valuable insights into the asteroid’s orbit, allowing scientists to refine the potential risk of an impact with the Moon. These findings have led ...

NASA shuts down asteroid-hunting telescope, but a better one is on the way The NEOWISE spacecraft is on a course to fall out of orbit in the next few months.

NASA Devised a Wild Plot to Capture an Asteroid and Save Humanity. It Almost Failed The space agency defied incredible odds to get its asteroid-hunting OSIRIS-REx spacecraft off the ground.

On Easter Sunday (April 20), NASA's Lucy probe should have zipped past the asteroid Donaldjohanson, testing science instruments on the space rock.

A new study suggests that millions of tiny space rock fragments, which were ejected from the 2022 collision between asteroid Dimorphos and NASA's DART spacecraft, may be on a collision course with ...