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

A new study shows NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART mission subtly changed an asteroid system’s orbit around the Sun.

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

There's some welcome news for astronomers as a threatening asteroid is no longer expected to impact the moon. At one point, ...

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

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

Of all the asteroids that have imperiled the planet, 2024 YR4 is unparalleled. An Earth impact was eventually ruled out in ...

The dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid, but does that mean we risk suffering the same fate - and should you be worried about the possibility? Leah Crane sets the matter straight ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to safely miss the lunar surface by about 13,000 miles, according to recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

A team led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory were focused on using the Webb telescope because the asteroid has been extremely difficult to observe since last year. A ...

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

NASA has ruled out any chance that an asteroid called 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in 2032. Last year, the uncertainty surrounding the space rock's orbital path held out a slight chance of impact, but ...