Sixty six million years ago, an asteroid the size of Mount Everest hurtled toward Earth, setting in motion an extinction ...

When a massive asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it triggered a chain of disasters—firestorms, tsunamis, and ...

NASA proved for the first time that a small spacecraft can deflect an asteroid. The DART mission collided with Dimorphos, ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

Sixty-six million years ago, give or take, a massive asteroid struck what is now the Yucatán Peninsula, triggering the ...

If Asteroid 2024 YR4 crashes into the Moon in 2032, it would be the largest impact in about 5,000 years, according to a new analysis. Researchers say the Moon debris would threaten spacecraft in or… ...

Dimorphos is a moonlet asteroid that orbits a larger parent asteroid known as Didymos. Neither poses a threat to Earth, but the double-asteroid system was a perfect target to test deflection ...

Not so coincidentally, the call came at about the same time that the Hollywood asteroid disaster films Armageddon and Deep Impact opened in theaters around the country.

NASA is monitoring a plane-sized asteroid zooming past the Earth on Thursday at around 13,600 miles per hour. The space rock known as "2022 YS5" made its closest approach at around 4.15 million ...

A National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) pilot program will utilize citizen science to help expedite hurricane disaster recovery.

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists' minds. It now poses a threat to the moon, rather than Earth.