The potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu probably won't hit Earth. But this study shows the damage a space rock of its size ...

YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes captured imagery of the aftermath from ...

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 ...

Hera launched Oct. 7 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on a two-year journey to Dimorphos, which is a tiny moonlet asteroid orbiting the larger 2,560-foot space rock Didymos.

We're probably still safe from this space rock, but at the moment, the chances of having a very bad encounter in 2032 have ...

While Asteroid 2024 YRA has a minute chance of hitting Earth in seven years, the co-lead of NASA's DART mission says a small spacecraft could deflect the space rock's course.

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to ...

YR4 should remain hovering around 1%, should humanity choose to, we have already proven we can nudge asteroids out of our way ...

the tiny moon of asteroid Didymos, in NASA's very first 'kinetic impactor test'. This graphic shows the concept behind the DART mission, to change the orbit of Dimorphos around Didymos by crashing ...