The huge 85m-wide rock, dubbed 2025 MA90, will pass within 6 million km of Earth today, July 15, and will be closely ...

Today, the sky holds an exciting spectacle as 2025 MA90, an asteroid approximately 280 feet in diameter, makes its close ...

On 26 September 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) deliberately slammed a vending-machine-size spacecraft into ...

Debris released from the asteroid Dimorphos during NASA's DART mission has a higher momentum and less random distribution ...

NASA’s DART impact on Dimorphos unleashed boulders with more force than expected, complicating future defences.

Asteroid 2025 MA90, which belongs to the Aten group, will make its closest approach on 15 July. It is about 280 feet wide and travelling at 20,263 miles per hour. NASA says it will pass Earth at ...

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

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

A small shift in trajectory has raised the risk of a lunar impact — but the scariest part is, we can't track it anymore.

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...