Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the world's first planetary defense test mission, is scheduled to launch early Wednesday morning. The agency said the mission will help ...

NASA has been tracking an asteroid with unusual characteristics, but could there be more to the story than they’re letting on ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

NASA tests planetary defense with asteroid collision 01:37. Seven million miles from Earth, a NASA spacecraft crashed head on into a tiny asteroid Monday at a mind-boggling 14,000 mph, the first ...

NASA’s next mission sounds like a Hollywood movie, but this spacecraft is for real. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will attempt what no mission has done before, which is to slightly ...

Early on November 24th, NASA is set to launch its DART mission on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California, sending a spacecraft on an intentional crash course with an asteroid. The plan is ...

NASA successfully disrupted the orbit of an asteroid in a mission last month that tested a strategy to defend against a potential asteroid headed toward Earth, the agency said on Tuesday.

The spacecraft NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet from its natural path into a faster orbit, marking the first time humanity has altered ...

Once again, the US public says NASA should prioritize asteroid defense Just 7 percent of US women want NASA to prioritize humans to Mars. Eric Berger – Jul 20, 2023 10:49 am | 242 ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson called the first planetary defense test a “bullseye,” confirming the impact changed the orbit of Dimorphos around Didymos by 32 minutes.

The NASA DART spacecraft will impact the asteroid Dimorphos on the evening of Sept. 26. The asteroid, which has a diameter of 525 feet, poses no threat to Earth.