According to NASA, asteroids are inactive bodies made of all the rocky, dusty and metallic materials left behind from the ...

The asteroid is named 2025 OW and measures approximately 210 feet in length, according to NASA. It is set to pass Earth on ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, which once appeared to be on a collision course with Earth, may hit the moon, which could create some ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

Debris released from the asteroid Dimorphos during NASA's DART mission has a higher momentum and less random distribution ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

It ultimately was successful, with NASA correctly predicting that it is possible to redirect celestial objects. The asteroid ...

All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it’s the only one we have, NASA Administrator Bill ...

NASA is collaborating with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on a space mission to launch a first-of-its-kind ...

THERE may be a flaw in Nasa’s only defence against Earth-shattering asteroids, according to new analysis. In 2022, the US ...

A "swarm of boulders" was sent careening into space after NASA successfully disrupted the orbit of an asteroid last year, according to the space agency.. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...