See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon, no one could anticipate the profound changes that happened next.

NASA and China are both advancing planetary defense strategies, with missions to monitor asteroid threats to Earth. Can they ...

NASA’s bold mission to save Earth from a killer asteroid. We're sorry, but something went wrong while fetching your podcast feeds. Please contact us at plus@slate ...

NASA has its gaze defined on a massive asteroid, almost the size of a stadium, that’s forecasted to skim past Earth at the ...

A 10-km wide asteroid fell out of space and smashed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula and the Gulf of Mexico. It left a ...

Efforts to shield Earth from asteroid impacts have advanced, but significant gaps remain in planetary defence systems. Robin ...

In How to Kill an Asteroid, Robin George Andrews looks at the successes and shortcomings of planetary defense.

NASA has recently declared that a massive asteroid is set to pass by Earth in December 2024, and while it’s big enough to ...

7). The mission will assess the impact made by NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, which altered the asteroid's orbit in September 2022. The Hera spacecraft, along with two ...