New research warns that if we don't hit an asteroid in exactly the right spot, it could end up on a collision course with ...

Experts have warned that NASA's asteroid deflection system could inadvertently send one towards Earth. The Double Asteroid ...

When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...

Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in space.

Using insights from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), researchers have developed a tool that would reveal future ...

To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...

"This is four times more people than saw Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. Think about what a world event this is going to be." ...

CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...

The label " space rock " feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window ...

An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18. The video in the media player above is from a related report. It will pass within 1.2 million miles of our ...