NASA successfully altered an asteroid’s orbit using a kinetic impact test, marking a breakthrough in planetary defense. Upcoming missions from ESA, JAXA, and NASA aim to study asteroids, Mars’ moons, ...

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

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

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 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 ...

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 $330 million DART probe will crash head-on into a small asteroid to test the possibility of averting future threats to Earth. ... NASA's "planetary defense" officer, told CBS News.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.