New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

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

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed our lunar companion is safe for now from an asteroid impact.

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

A 2022 NASA mission changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around its companion. New data shows their joint orbit around ...

Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the solar system: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were assembling ...

For a brief time, "Asteroid 2024 YR4" was considered to be the most dangerous asteroid discovered in the last 20 years.

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its ...

A camera on NASA's DART spacecraft captures Dimorphos, left, and Didymos as it approaches for a direct hit of the smaller of the two, Dimorphos, in September 2022. Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins APL A ...

New analysis reveals that the DART Mission impact did make a difference and altered the entire binary asteroid’s path around the sun.

In September 2022 NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. Called Dimorphos, the rock is the smaller asteroid in a binary ...