While NASA has been working to avert any such disaster, participants in the summary pointed out the main problem they might face if an asteroid impact becomes likely. The simulation had an ...

Led by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies, the asteroid impact simulation is meant to prepare scientists, planners, and key decision makers for the real ...

As NASA points out in a press release, this simulation, which includes both U.S. and international partners, is being done to “investigate how near-Earth object (NEO) observers, space agency ...

NASA simulates how the U.S. might respond to asteroid threatening Earth NASA and other federal agencies recently did a tabletop simulation of an Earth-threatening asteroid to see how they'd handle it ...

NASA personnel will pretend they've detected an asteroid due to hit Earth in 2027 — to make sure they're ready if any real asteroid threatens Earth.

Slower moving particles blasted out by the DART impact on the asteroid Dimorphos could create meteor showers on Mars — but it's unlikely they'll cause meteor showers over Earth.

That’s the hypothetical scenario NASA astronomers tested with a recent simulation in which officials attempted to plan for an asteroid that had a 72% chance of hitting Earth in just 14 years.

The collision of the spacecraft—which weighed about 1,300 pounds—had a noticeable impact on the asteroid and its movements. "The simulation results based on observations of the asteroid ...

The simulation was also the first to include not just an impact but its immediate aftereffects. Events started with the “discovery” of an asteroid named “TTX22” heading toward Earth.

Slower moving particles blasted out by the DART impact on the asteroid Dimorphos could create meteor showers on Mars — but it's unlikely they'll cause meteor showers over Earth.

Slower moving particles blasted out by the DART impact on the asteroid Dimorphos could create meteor showers on Mars — but it's unlikely they'll cause meteor showers over Earth.

Slower moving particles blasted out by the DART impact on the asteroid Dimorphos could reach Mars and create meteors in 2035 — but it's unlikely they'll cause meteor showers over Earth.