NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes captured imagery of the aftermath from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists reveal how the DART mission asteroid impact blasted 35 million pounds of debris and changed Dimorphos’ orbit. (CREDIT: ...

For the last couple of years, NASA has been observing an asteroid that could be hurtling towards the moon in a matter of years. Scientists believe that Asteroid 2024 YR4 - which was discovered two ...

Early last year, asteroid 2024 YR4 caught the public’s attention as its chances of hitting Earth in the near future climbed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artist impression of a large asteroid impacting on Earth such as the Chicxulub event that caused the end-Cretaceous mass ...

What happens if an asteroid the size of a 15-story building crashes into the Moon in 2032? While the chances of the newly discovered asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting the Moon in seven years are slim – there ...

An airplane-sized asteroid labeled 2026 BJ8 is racing toward Earth at roughly 50,000 kilometers per hour, but NASA’s tracking shows it will pass at a safe distance. Rather than a disaster warning, the ...

The space rock is hurtling toward the Earth at a zippy 8,478 miles per hour miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate far more energy than previously thought without breaking apart—a ...

Some may eject huge plumes, while others could absorb the impact with less effect. “Every time we interact with an asteroid, we find something that surprises us, so there’s a lot more work to do,” ...