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 ...

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

A building-sized asteroid named 2022 YS5 is making a close approach to Earth on July 17, and space agencies across the globe ...

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 ...

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 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.

NASA has warned that SpaceX's plan for 30,000 more Starlink satellites could cause problems for science missions, human spaceflight, the Hubble telescope, and ground-based telescopes that look for ...

In September 2022, NASA’s DART mission successfully deflected a non-threatening asteroid, slightly altering its orbit using kinetic impact in a test of planetary defense.

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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.