Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (NewsNation) — A NASA defense spacecraft altered the pathway of two asteroids’ orbits around the sun, according to a new study.

Research shows that NASA's 2022 DART spacecraft was a success in intentionally shifting the orbit of 2 asteroids.

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits.

NASA warns that more than 15,000 asteroids capable of destroying cities remain undetected and that Earth has no defense against impact.

Washington, DC – Three new objects locked into roughly the same orbit as Neptune–called “Trojan” asteroids–have been found by researchers from the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Terrestrial ...

Asteroids sharing their orbits with the planet Neptune have been observed to exist in a broad spectrum of red colour, implying the existence of two populations of asteroids in the region, ...