Scientists found that NASA's DART spacecraft ejected a massive barrage of boulders when it bashed into asteroid Dimorphos in ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

NASA has been tracking an asteroid with unusual characteristics, but could there be more to the story than they’re letting on ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

Planetary defense scientists say NASA’s DART asteroid redirection mission sent space rocks hurtling on unexpected ...

NASA asteroid defense setback prompts experts to warn about gaps in Earth’s planetary protection strategy. Length: 145 ...

The 'city killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 may not be on a collision course with Earth anymore. But NASA has raised the odds of it hitting the moon in just seven years' time.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, ... planetary defense has long been one of the few issues that has had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of Congress.

The report comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s initial budget proposal for NASA, which calls for historically large cuts to the space agency.

In the latest impact risk assessments from NASA, the agency predicted that there was a 1 in 38 chance, or 2.6 percent, that the YR4 asteroid would hit the Earth. What To Know ...

Like a lot of cool things, the field of asteroid defense began with a bunch of kids at MIT with brainpower to spare. In 1967, MIT professor Paul Sandorff asked his class to imagine that a real ...

More information: Evie Kendal et al, Technical Challenges and Ethical, Legal and Social Issues (ELSI) for Asteroid Mining and Planetary Defense, Aerospace (2025). DOI: 10.3390/aerospace12060544 ...