NASA officer Dr Kelly Fast is responsible for identifying and tracking asteroids, and figuring out if any of these rocky ...

NASA’s Asteroid Watch Dashboard has issued a new list of five asteroids on approach, with close passes to Earth expected ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing [email protected]. We might be able to defend Earth from a future asteroid impact using something straight out of a sci-fi movie: a blast of X-rays.

An award-winning UK scientist warns that it might be too late to deflect the “city killer” asteroid that’s headed toward Earth. Deflection efforts “might not be able to stop 2024 YR4 ...

A new threat looms as scientists warn of dangerous asteroids near Venus, hidden from Earth's telescopes by the Sun's glare.

While space agencies have tested asteroid deflection strategies—such as NASA’s DART mission, which successfully altered the orbit of a small asteroid in 2022—no current plans exist to ...

NASA also conducted an asteroid deflection test when it smashed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test into the asteroid Dimorphos, which orbited a larger object called Didymos. The mission ...

This experimental setup doesn’t provide a perfect simulation of an asteroid deflection mission using a nuclear explosion. But this scaled-down model offers a good way to test this technique ...

The Chinese asteroid deflection test could happen as early as 2027, in a project similar to NASA’s recent DART mission. A recent paper in the Journal of Deep Space Exploration revealed new ...

in September 2022 to assess the effectiveness of asteroid deflection technology. The agency wanted to see whether a kinetic impact — such as intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid ...