First proposed in the early 1960s the concept known as Ivan’s Hammer envisioned diverting a natural asteroid or meteoroid ...
A newly discovered space rock zoomed safely by Earth on Wednesday (Oct. 15) at only about a quarter of the average distance ...
A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...
On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...
Most asteroid flybys pass millions of kilometers away from Earth, too distant to notice. But one upcoming encounter will be ...
A one-way trip to the Mars usually takes about 9 months, but one team out of Russia thinks they can knock that down to 30 ...