On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...
Experts have warned that NASA's asteroid deflection system could inadvertently send one towards Earth. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was built by the John Hopkins Applied Physics ...
CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...
In a new paper, scientists argued that our best option is to blow up asteroid 2024 YR4 as part of a "kinetic disruption ...
An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18. The video in the media player above is from a related report. It will pass within 1.2 million miles of our ...
According to NASA, “Asteroid 2024 YR4 is now too far away to observe with either space or ground-based telescopes. The space ...