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

There aren’t as many potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near Earth as previously thought, according to a new study.

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

NASA has created a contingency plan to protect Earth from large asteroids, which includes the use of nuclear explosions as a ...

They say the 2029 visit will present a rare opportunity to investigate an asteroid up close, perhaps learning clues about the origin of our solar system, and to hone planetary defense strategies ...

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 ...

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 Taurid Meteoroid Stream, which is possibly responsible for the famous Tunguska and Chelyabinsk impacts, probably doesn't ...

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 ...

The crater left from the second asteroid's impact has been dubbed the Nadir crater, and it was first discovered in 2022.

New research shows that ants have been farming fungi for 66 million years — thanks in part to the asteroid that fueled the ...