In September 2022 NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. Called Dimorphos, the rock is the smaller asteroid in a binary ...

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

An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, ...

A 2022 NASA mission changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around its companion. New data shows their joint orbit around ...

Scientists are raising serious alarms about hidden threats from space that could strike Earth without warning. NASA officials ...

NASA’s NEO Surveyor telescope will launch in 2027 to find dangerous asteroids that current telescopes miss, strengthening planetary defense.

Overall, Didymos is nearly 200 times more massive than its smaller companion, which explains why shifting the larger asteroid ...

NASA’s latest observations using the James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will miss the Moon in 2032, ...

NASA has revealed a major update on the massive “city killer” asteroid amid fears after scientists debated using nuclear ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports that the near-Earth asteroid 2021 ER will approach Earth on Friday for a safe yet close flyby. The asteroid is roughly 44 feet wide, which equals the ...

"We don’t know where they are,” said NASA’s planetary defense officer Kelly Fast at the AAAS conference in Arizona this week.

NASA planetary defense experts warn that up to 15,000 undetected asteroids could devastate a major city on Earth.