For the first time ever, scientists have uncovered a vast field of tektites in Brazil — mysterious glassy fragments forged when a powerful extraterrestrial object slammed into Earth about 6.3 million ...

Initially, much uncertainty surrounded the flight path of the space rock known as 2024 YR4, a small asteroid that has ...

Findings support kinetic impact technique for planetary defense.

Scientists using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have ruled out the possibility that asteroid ...

Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck stopped a Texas-sized asteroid from crashing into the Earth in the 1998 science-fiction movie “Armageddon.” But a NASA expert said recently the greatest concern isn’t the ...

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

NASA’s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense. NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft changed the ...

The U.S. space agency measured the impact of its DART mission, revealing that the impact changed the orbit of two cosmic ...

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...

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Can life transport between planets from impacts? This is what a recent study published in PNAS Nexus hopes to address as a team of scientists investigated how microbes could have come to Earth via ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was impacted by NASA DART mission. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li ...