In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

NASA has been tracking an asteroid with unusual characteristics, but could there be more to the story than they’re letting on ...

NASA's DART mission successfully disrupted asteroid's orbit The mission late last month sent a spacecraft to collide with an asteroid.

Scientists found that NASA's DART spacecraft ejected a massive barrage of boulders when it bashed into asteroid Dimorphos in ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

The report comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s initial budget proposal for NASA, which calls for historically large cuts to the space agency.

NASA asteroid defense setback prompts experts to warn about gaps in Earth’s planetary protection strategy. Length: 145 ...

The idea of a massive asteroid hurtling towards Earth, threatening our very existence, sounds like the plot of a Hollywood ...

“This technique is thought to be the most technologically mature approach for mitigating a potentially hazardous asteroid,” NASA’s planetary defense officer Lindley Johnson explained in a ...

Once again, the US public says NASA should prioritize asteroid defense Just 7 percent of US women want NASA to prioritize humans to Mars.

Space & Spaceflight A Space Pharmacy and Asteroid-Pulverizing Tech Just Got NASA Funding The agency's Innovative Advanced Concepts program seeks out futuristic ideas that could become real technology.

Planetary defense scientists say NASA’s DART asteroid redirection mission sent space rocks hurtling on unexpected ...