Scientists see this as a much more favorable alternative to nuclear deflection, which would use a powerful nuclear bomb to ...

If an asteroid is hurtling toward Earth, can humanity be saved not with a bang, but with a nudge? NASA is poised to investigate just that with a first-of-its-kind mission to deflect an asteroid by ...

(CNN) — A European spacecraft and two shoebox-size satellites have launched to survey the aftermath from NASA’s DART mission, which intentionally slammed into an asteroid named Dimorphos and altered ...