With the recent success of NASA's DART mission, asteroid deflection technology has made huge strides. Where does that leave Hollywood's more cinematic portrayals of asteroid smashing?

NASA has begun work on an asteroid-hunting telescope to protect Earth from disaster. NEO Surveyor is a new space telescope made to advance NASA’s planetary defense efforts by finding near ...

The DART mission successfully crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos and slightly nudged the orbit of the asteroid. NASA/Johns Hopkins ... the Parker Solar Probe has been making closer ...