In September 2022, a spacecraft the size of a refrigerator slammed into a small asteroid at nearly 24,000 kilometers per hour (15,000 miles per hour). The collision was deliberate and the asteroid ...

The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space ...

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to safely miss the lunar surface by about 13,000 miles, according to recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

NASA’s DART mission changed the Dimorphos' asteroid orbit around the Sun, proving spacecraft impacts could help defend Earth.

Studying the 2022 collision's effects can help scientists protect the Earth from celestial objects that might head toward us ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair ...

NASA’s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense. NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft changed the ...

A long-running debate about the Silverpit Crater beneath the North Sea has finally been resolved. Scientists now confirm it formed when a roughly 160-meter asteroid struck the seabed about 43–46 ...

A colossal asteroid struck the North Sea millions of years ago, forming a vast crater and unleashing a 100 metre (330-foot) tsunami that surged toward the land now known as Britain. Researchers have ...