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 ...

NASA's DART mission proved we are able to change an asteroid's path by smashing a spacecraft into it, but exactly where we hit a rocky body is important ...

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

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

Scientists caution that asteroid deflection must be precise, as striking the wrong spot risks sending it through a ...

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

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary. Credit: Space.com | footage: Krisztián Sárneczky / or ...

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 ...

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 ...