Asteroid-Smashing NASA Mission Sped Up Space Rocks’ Journey Around the Sun

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by ...

Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds

An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Asteroid 2024 YR4 Won’t Slam Into the Moon, According to NASA

Asteroid 2024 YR4 will not impact the Moon in 2032! New observations from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have ...
Scientific American

Notorious asteroid 2024 YR4 won't crash into the moon after all

Earthlings aren't the only ones safe from a city-wrecking-size asteroid. Future lunar inhabitants won't have to worry about a ...

NASA changed an asteroid’s orbital path around the sun, a first for humankind

In September 2022 NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. Called Dimorphos, the rock is the smaller asteroid in a binary ...

A fast-moving, 93-foot airplane-sized asteroid is making a close approach to Earth today, NASA warns

A fast-moving asteroid called 2026 DG7 is set to pass relatively close to Earth. Scientists say it poses no danger, but the ...

NASA rules out asteroid smashup on the moon in 2032

NASA has ruled out any chance that an asteroid called 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in 2032. Last year, the uncertainty ...

Asteroid Impacts Could Launch Living Microbes From Mars

A super-tough microbe may be able to survive being blasted from Mars into space—opening the door to interplanetary life ...
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Space breakthrough as scientists change course of asteroid in bid to stop future doomsday

Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) have changed the course of an asteroid in order to ...