NASA plans to blast “planet killer” asteroids with a 1,000-strong army of spacecraft – or even a nuke. The space agency ...

Here’s how the lab simulation went ... better than just trying to body-check the asteroid away from Earth with an explosion, or an impact with something big and heavy. And Moore and his ...

The asteroid was found by a group called ATLAS, which stands for Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System ... Amateur ...

Crucially, the pulse of energy also vaporized the foil, so the mock asteroid was briefly free-floating while getting blasted with X-rays — a vital part of the simulation because a real asteroid ...

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid to test a planetary defense system — could the impact redirect the asteroid? That was the question, and it worked. Now the ...

Fear not – mini-moons are not as rare an occurrence as readers may think. The paper references 2022 NX 1, for instance, which ...

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by ... are eager to examine the impact’s aftermath up close to know exactly ...

Some of Hera's instruments — designed to survey the impact site of NASA's successful asteroid-deflection test — snapped the images below. "Farewell, Earth!" the European Space Agency posted ...

Scientists simulated a nuclear explosion using x-ray pulses to push an asteroid-like rock away in space-like conditions.

The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft is on its way to do follow-up observations of Dimorphos, two years after an ...