See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

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

Spanish scientists have developed a groundbreaking formula using the gravitational bending of light to pinpoint celestial ...

ESA's Hera mission has successfully executed critical maneuvers to align with the Didymos binary asteroid system, leveraging Mars for a gravity assist to shorten travel time. As it journeys, Hera will ...

Every year, over 3,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are found by NASA's survey telescopes. With the use of more powerful and ...

NASA’s bold mission to save Earth from a killer asteroid. We're sorry, but something went wrong while fetching your podcast feeds. Please contact us at plus@slate ...

In How to Kill an Asteroid, Robin George Andrews looks at the successes and shortcomings of planetary defense.

The Hera mission is headed for the Didymos binary asteroid system. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Mission (DART) smashed ...

Humanity is better prepared than ever before to prevent a large asteroid from crashing into Earth, but there's more work, and ...

Professor Noville, a Spanish scientist, has discovered a formula using the gravitational bending of light to pinpoint celestial objects including hazardous asteroids ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) 's Hera asteroid probe, has successfully completed a critical milestone in its mission to ...