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In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the real thing, ...

One of the most complex machines humankind has ever built tracked an almost invisible object many millions of kilometres away ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, findings that could help divert a future incoming ...

In 2022, humanity deliberately smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. At the time, the goal sounded almost cinematic: test whether we could push a dangerous space rock off course if Earth were ever in ...

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...

A car-sized asteroid, 2026 FM3, will pass closer than the Moon on March 25, 2026. Scientists confirm the flyby poses no ...

Webb telescope data shows a once-risky asteroid will safely pass Earth and the Moon in 2032, removing all impact concerns.

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

In this image provided by NASA, an impact plume emerges from the asteroid Dimorphos, left, after DART collides into it on Sept. 26, 2022, orbiting the larger asteroid Dimorphos. (NASA/ASI/University ...

In this image provided by NASA, an impact plume emerges from the asteroid Dimorphos, left, after DART collides into it on Sept. 26, 2022, orbiting the larger asteroid Dimorphos. (NASA/ASI/University ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, findings that could help divert a future incoming ...