NASA has announced a new strategy to combat asteroid threats - which includes details of how a nuclear explosion could save ...

A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

Apophis will travel closer to us than any similarly sized astronomical object in recorded history, scientists said. It will ...

A European spacecraft is on its way to get an up-close look at an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed its own vehicle ...

A spacecraft is on its way to visit an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022. The Hera craft launched ...

The space rock, named 2016 JG38, after the year it was discovered, is classed by the US space agency as a "Near Earth Object" ...

Scientists are eager to examine the impact’s aftermath up close to know exactly how effective Dart was and what changes might ...

Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren't as many as we thought.

The €363-million (US$398-million) mission is a follow-up to NASA’s DART, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test. In September 2022, the similarly sized DART spacecraft slammed into Dimorphos ...

Earth's newest celestial neighbor has finally arrived. Astronomers using a powerful telescope in Sutherland, South Africa, ...

The research has been led by a scientist called Joshua Pearce. It says that the organic compounds inside of asteroids - which ...