The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space ...

ESA’s Planetary Defence team allay fears 100-metre-wide object could hit Earth’s moon and disrupt satellites ...

The spacecraft slowed down the system's 76,000 mph orbital speed... by two inches per hour. We're going to have to punch a lot harder if we want to save Earth.

A rock and a hard place ...

NASA’s DART mission changed the Dimorphos' asteroid orbit around the Sun, proving spacecraft impacts could help defend Earth.

Studying the 2022 collision's effects can help scientists protect the Earth from celestial objects that might head toward us ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to safely miss the lunar surface by about 13,000 miles, according to recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair ...

An asteroid that scientists initially feared might pose a risk to Earth may could instead strike the moon in 2032, according to the European Space Agency, but some scientists are suggesting it could ...

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket, already selected to carry NASA science missions to Mars, is drawing attention as a potential ...