NASA is launching a small probe Wednesday that will crash head-on into a small asteroid next fall at some 15,000 mph to test the feasibility of one day nudging a threatening body off course just ...

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 ...

Launching a nuclear bomb at an asteroid on collision course with Earth may sound like the plot of a sci-fi movie, but new research suggests even a terrifyingly late intervention could help avoid an ...

To close this gap, NASA is building the Near-Earth Object Surveyor, a space telescope designed to detect asteroids using infrared rather than visible light. Its infrared sensors will detect both ...

Dozens of boulders dislodged by NASA's asteroid-smashing DART test could hit Mars in the future, new research suggests. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...

NASA will use a spacecraft later this month to test a planetary-defense method that could one day save Earth. The Double Asteroid Redirect Test spacecraft, otherwise known as DART, will be used as a ...