Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a chance of hitting the moon. To save it from collision, scientists are considering launching a nuclear ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...

Sean Duffy, the acting NASA Administrator, discusses the future of space exploration including putting a man on Mars.

A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...

Researchers discovered a new field of ancient tektites in South Australia, revealing a long-forgotten asteroid impact. These ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes observatory captured imagery of the impact from the French island of La ...

We’ve all seen this happen in a science-fiction movie: our plucky heroes jump into their ramshackle spaceship and escape the bad guys by flying through the treacherous asteroid belt, where huge rocks ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When it smashed into Earth "with the energy of about 8 billion times a World War II-era nuclear ...

NASA's Psyche mission is en route to a metal-rich asteroid, aiming to understand its composition, while US startups are actively developing technologies for asteroid mining. Asteroids hold ...

In 2022, NASA intentionally rammed a spacecraft into a small asteroid at 14,000 mph, knocking it off course. The goal was to demonstrate a proof of concept for keeping humanity safe from a space rock ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 caused quite a stir last year when it was discovered and originally calculated to have a 3% chance of hitting Earth. Since then models have been refined and while it no longer has a ...