NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

Two weeks ago, when Ars first wrote about the asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies ...

NASA’s DART mission tested asteroid deflection. Scientists analyzed ejecta patterns, momentum transfer, and deflection ...

NASA's DART space mission was a success and this is how the agency's technicians confirmed it: "We have impact!" they said. The US space agency managed to slightly deflect the asteroid Dimorphos ...

With the "city-killer" Y24 asteroid headed for Earth, the world's largest space agencies are exploring ways to halt its ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough is being done to track it, says local astronomer.

NEO Surveyor will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Space Coast no earlier than September 2027. The total value ...

“So much could go wrong if we try and hit it with something like DART,” said one researcher. NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab And while the odds of Armageddon might seem slim, Andrews ...

Could an asteroid hit Earth in 2032? NASA now says no. We asked two experts to break it down, and shed some light on how much ...

In the first test of our planetary defences, NASA's DART mission successfully altered a harmless asteroid's trajectory in ...