Nasa has already successfully tested technologies to deflect asteroids, most notably during its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission in 2022, which redirected an asteroid twice the size ...

In 2022, NASA performed a first-of-its-kind test. The agency intentionally crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid, nudging it just enough to change its trajectory. The mission gave the space ...

New observations of a small asteroid discovered in December have led astronomers to conclude that the chances of it striking Earth are almost zero after earlier data had indicated a higher risk of a ...

Asteroids of this size regularly pass through the Earth's neighborhood, often unnoticed, unless they are actively tracked by NASA and other space agencies. The continuous monitoring of near-Earth ...

“Like, you have to live on the edge of fear to achieve ... The spacecraft is set to spend a little under a year traveling to an asteroid called 2022 OB5, which next year is expected to travel ...

Theo Burman is a Newsweek Live News Reporter based in London ... which altered the course of an asteroid in 2022 using kinetic impactors. DART was tested by NASA in 2022 on the Dimorphos asteroid ...