NASA is actively working on planetary defence against asteroids that could threaten Earth. Their new documentary highlights ...

A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...

DART’s success means that humanity now has a proven, scalable technology for asteroid deflection, and the technical foundation to develop more robust planetary defense systems in the future.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter.

Also, it will provide very interesting asteroid science ... the most effective deflection techniques. Is it kinetic impactor or something like ion beam deflection or the gravity tractor approach?

This is a still from an animation showing asteroid 2024 YR4 as it passes by Earth and heads toward its potential impact with the Moon. This 3D shape of the asteroid was determined from data ...

serving as the first real-world test of asteroid deflection via kinetic impact. The spacecraft intentionally crashed into the moonlet of the asteroid Didymos and successfully altered its orbit by ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids out near Jupiter.