"With these probability maps, we can push asteroids away while preventing them from returning on an impact trajectory, protecting the Earth in the long run." ...

The deliberate 14,000-mph crash of a small NASA probe into the asteroid Dimorphos two weeks ago nudged the 525-foot-wide body onto a slightly different course, NASA confirmed Tuesday — shaving 32 ...

So they began to seriously consider proposals to neutralize asteroids: by nuking them, shooting lasers at them, shoving them off course with steam clouds ... while another study predicted that ...

NASA is preparing to launch a spacecraft that will purposely crash into an asteroid’s moon, part of the space agency’s goal of developing technology that could one day prevent a hazardous asteroid ...

Event: Small asteroid 2023 CX1 lost 98% of kinetic energy in a fraction of a second when it entered Earth's atmosphere on ...

There’s going to be an asteroid crash in space — and it’s fully intentional. NASA and SpaceX have joined together to launch what NASA calls a mission of “planetary defense.” DART, or the Double ...

Late this evening, NASA is launching a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator, sending it on a crash course with an asteroid in 2022 — and it’s all on purpose. This intentional self-destruction will ...

"We can outdo two centuries of effort in just a couple of years." It was weirdly emotional on Monday (June 23) as several grainy white specks streaked across my computer screen while ambient rhythms ...

Gamma-ray bursts are not only incredible to study, but their discovery has an epic story all its own. Today Phil takes you through some Cold War history and then dives into what we know. Bursts come ...

(CNN) — A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch this week. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will lift off at 10:20 p.m. PT ...