NASA’s DART mission, the first-ever planetary defense test in space, sent a spacecraft to ...

We might go full “Armageddon” on asteroid 2024 YR4. After mulling several different solutions, scientists have devised an unconventional method to stop the “city killer” space rock from hitting the ...

A minimum of three “city-killer” asteroids have been spotted near Venus, and they could strike Earth in the next few weeks without warning. “City-killer” asteroids are defined as asteroids reaching 40 ...

In Armageddon, NASA discovers that an asteroid will impact the planet in 18 days and make humanity go the way of the dinosaurs. They devise a plan to drill a hole in the asteroid and drop in a nuke, ...

In a mission that evokes images of the 1998 film "Armageddon," NASA next month will launch a spacecraft that it plans to deliberately crash into a near-Earth asteroid in the hopes of testing planetary ...