Sooner or later, a sizable asteroid could impact a populated area on Earth. How is the US, and the world, preparing?

The threat of asteroid impacts on Earth is not fictional. To date, humans have discovered nearly 1.44 million small celestial ...

At the recent 3rd International Conference on Deep Space Exploration (Tiandu), Chinese scientists proposed the concept of establishing a relatively complete detection and defense system for near-Earth ...

China is planning to send a mission to hit an asteroid and change its orbit with a spacecraft to lower the risk of it ...

Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program and newly elected president of the International Deep Space Exploration Association (IDSEA), delivers a keynote report at the third ...

Asteroid deflection could backfire if the impact shoves the rock into a cosmic keyhole, a hidden trapdoor in space.

Experts explain why it's "routine" and highlights another encounter in 2029. A plane-sized asteroid scheduled to pass Earth next week is making headlines, but NASA experts want the public to ...

The asteroid known as 2024 YR4 is out of sight yet still very much on scientists’ minds. The building-sized object, which initially appeared to be on a potential collision course with Earth, is ...

NASA proved for the first time that a small spacecraft can deflect an asteroid. The DART mission collided with Dimorphos, showing humanity can protect itself from cosmic disasters.