The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
With an asteroid threatening impact with the moon in 2032, NASA explores all possible avenues to avert catastrophe—even ...
With a low but notable chance of hitting our moon this asteroid is in the sights of scientists. A city-block-sized asteroid ...
NASA is preparing for a potential cosmic showdown! Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a small chance of slamming into the Moon — but the ...
It cannot yet be ruled out that the asteroid 2024 YR₄ will crash into the moon in seven years' time, with dangerous ...
If asteroid 2024 YR4 hits the Moon, it could launch dust and small rocks into space, creating micrometeoroid debris in low Earth orbit.
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a chance of hitting the moon. To save it from collision, scientists are considering launching a nuclear ...
If that fails, scientists suggest preparing a nuclear option. Detonating a rocket-delivered nuke on or near the asteroid ...
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 ...
A plan by a team of scientists suggests using nuclear explosive devices to prevent an asteroid, 2024 YR4, from striking the moon in 2032.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration has confirmed an interstellar object is passing through our solar system.