You might think of asteroids as just rocks of various sizes floating around in space. But they’re vastly more complex than ...

A chance encounter with another asteroid could steer Apophis destructively close to Earth during a future passage.

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Astronomer Paul Wiegert had found a scenario in which Apophis could be sent careening into Earth in 2029. But we’d have to be ...

The mission of the China National Space Administration (CNSA) will most likely choose a 30-meter-wide asteroid called (NEO) ...

To defend the Earth from nearby asteroids, China will reportedly adopt an “escort plus impact plus escort” mode, which is ...

The Dart mission diverted the orbit of an asteroid, in what was a first planetary defense test. The result of the impact could be seen from Earth in the form of star rain, although in the case of a ...

The main goal of planetary protection is ‘responsible exploration of the solar system’ and protect biospheres of the Earth ...

On September 26, 2022, the DART spacecraft successfully impacted the asteroid Dimorphos, altering its orbit around the larger ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

The impact of NASA's DART mission, which successfully altered a smaller asteroid’s orbit in space by a whopping 33 minutes, ...

NASA's DART impact shifted an asteroid's orbit, creating debris that may reach Earth or Mars. ESA's Hera mission will ...