“It’s an exciting time,” says Ed Lu, a retired NASA astronaut and founder of the B612 Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to asteroid detection and deflection. “I think DART’s going to be a ...

NASA has issued a disturbing update on the 'city destroying' asteroid that could hit the moon in some seven years.

A cluster of asteroids co-orbiting with Venus has captured the attention of astronomers due to their unpredictable trajectories, which could potentially intersect with Earth's orbit over extended ...

On June 5, 2025, a massive asteroid known as 424482 (2008 DG5) is set to pass by Earth. The asteroid, which measures approximately 1,017 to 2,264 feet (310-690 meters) in size, is larger than most ...

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

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

Planetary defenders tend to prefer deflection because it’s gentler and more predictable. Destroying the asteroid (experts use the term “disrupting”) involves breaking it into pieces ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...