New observations have ruled out the chances of an asteroid hitting the moon in 2032, according to scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

A NASA spacecraft that smashed into an asteroid on purpose didn't just knock one rock off its course. It also nudged the orbit of the entire asteroid system it belongs to, a new s ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair ...

We start with two big developments on US military casualties in the war with Iran and ramped up threats on the world’s most critical oil shipping lane. We have an update on a suspicious device found ...

Studying the 2022 collision's effects can help scientists protect the Earth from celestial objects that might head toward us ...

Findings support kinetic impact technique for planetary defense.

The asteroid that NASA's Dart spacecraft slammed into was never a threat to Earth.

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. New observations show how it went.

Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and its gravity strongly influences the movement of asteroids and comets. While it can capture or deflect some dangerous objects, it can also disturb ...

The researchers used Deinococcus radiodurans, an extremely resilient bacterium, to test their hypothesis.