NASA has proven they are serious as a defender of planet Earth. Astronomers have now confirmed that NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test was a complete success! DART is the very first full-scale ...

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

Images that NASA's DART spacecraft captured of an asteroid moments before it intentionally collided with the object in 2022 have now allowed researchers to gain fresh insights into the celestial ...

The demise of a spacecraft is usually something rather poignant. But two weeks ago, NASA celebrated one's destruction. On September 26, NASA executed the final stage of the Double Asteroid Redirection ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved asteroid moonlet Dimorphos "by a whopping 33 minutes," according to NASA. See the highlights here. Credit: NASA ...

NASA’s DART mission successfully deflected an asteroid but also unleashed high-velocity boulders with unexpected momentum. These chaotic ejecta may alter asteroid spin and orbit, complicating future ...

Nasa is just hours away from the culmination of its Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or Dart mission, which will see a spacecraft slam into an asteroid on Monday evening in a bid to prove it’s ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft that crashed into a 560-foot-wide asteroid last month was able to change the space rock's orbit, the agency confirmed on Tuesday. DART hit the ...

A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of kilometres away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA announced Tuesday. The space agency attempted the first planetary defence ...

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...