Asteroid 2026 EG1 was discovered on March 8, less than one week ago.

Even slightly changing the orbit of an object heading toward Earth can move it out of the collision path. | Credit: Illustration by Stephen Kelly / / Shutterstock NASA crashed a spacecraft into an ...

The spacecraft slowed down the system's 76,000 mph orbital speed... by two inches per hour. We're going to have to punch a lot harder if we want to save Earth.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

According to the space agency's tracking, the rock is hurtling through space at more than 21,500 miles per hour.

A bus-size asteroid known as 2026 EG1 flew past Earth closer than the moon late Thursday. Here's what NASA had to say about ...

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

The asteroid, which was about the size of a humpback whale or a school bus, passed within 200,000 miles of Earth Thursday night, before heading out to space.

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is big and dangerous enough that it has been dubbed a "city killer." There were concerns that the asteroid ...

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.

The asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs didn’t keep life down for long. New research shows that microscopic plankton began evolving into new species within just a few thousand years—and ...