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 ...

NASA crashed a space probe into an asteroid on Monday night, practicing to deflect dangerous space rocks. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) hit the space rock in an effort to change its ...

An artist’s illustration of Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission as it closes in on the asteroid Dimorphos (Nasa) Over the coming days, weeks, and months, scientists will begin ...

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

Now it's up to astronomers to determine if this first planetary defence test was truly a success. It was like a scene out of a science fiction disaster movie. On Monday night, scientists and engineers ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has redirected the non-threatening space rock and altered its flight path. The world’s first mission in planetary defence will see the DART spacecraft, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

AKIKO FUJITA: Well, it is time now for a quick detour. This time, our detour takes us far out into space. This is my favorite story of the day. A smashing success at NASA, with the space agency ...

Over the coming days, weeks, and months, scientists will begin releasing images and data from telescopes and ground-based observations that could reveal the extent to which Nasa’s Dart mission altered ...