The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

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 ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels strike and pulverize two large boulders on the target, debris from which ...

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

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on nearly 40,000 large objects out there with the hope of avoiding the fate of ...

The report comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s initial budget proposal for NASA, which calls for historically large cuts to the space agency.

HOUSTON—NASA’s Psyche mission spacecraft has resumed solar electric propulsion operations after being successfully switched to a backup fuel line. The solar-powered asteroid probe’s four ...

NASA asteroid defense setback prompts experts to warn about gaps in Earth’s planetary protection strategy. Length: 145 ...

NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.

NASA’s Lucy mission took the highest resolution image yet of this uniquely shaped asteroid.

A U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command team played an important behind-the-scenes role in supporting NASA’s Sporadic-E Electro Dynamics sounding ...