A nuclear explosion might eventually be Earth’s only way to protect itself from a dangerous asteroid. But preparing for that ...

NASA’s DART mission was a groundbreaking demonstration of asteroid deflection technology. Designed with minimal hardware and ...

A Q&A with Lindley Johnson, a pioneer in blueprinting warning and response scenarios to any potential impact of Earth by an ...

NASA has just premiered Planetary Defenders, offering a fascinating look at the high-stakes work geared toward protecting Earth from any large asteroids discovered coming our way.

A so-called “city-killer” asteroid once feared to be on a collision course with Earth could instead crash into the Moon, according to updated observations by NASA scientists. Asteroid 2024 YR4, ...

Basically it’s cannonball technology. You load up an unmanned ... It will be the first time ever that an asteroid deflection method will be tested in real-space conditions.

Planetary defenders tend to prefer deflection because ... says Richard Binzel, an asteroid hazards expert at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Soon this same sort of situation will ...

through its Double Asteroid Reflection Test (DART) mission. Dimorphos wasn't headed for a dangerous collision with Earth, but it was an ideal target to test a deflection plan that involved crashing a ...

A “city-killer” asteroid previously thought to be on a collision course with the Earth could smash into the Moon instead, new data suggests.

The ‘gravity tractor’ method of asteroid deflection involves flying a spacecraft close enough to an asteroid so its gravitational attraction gradually pulls the body off course ...

A huge asteroid that was briefly feared to strike Earth now has a nearly four percent chance of smashing into the Moon.