The DART mission achieved its goal of changing one asteroid’s orbit around another, but questions remain about why the orbit ...

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

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

A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission Team was awarded the 2024 Michael Collins Trophy for Current Achievement. In 2022, NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission ...

NASA could soon trial a new defence strategy to prevent a giant asteroid hurtling towards the Moon and posing a huge risk to ...

In a new paper, scientists argued that our best option is to blow up asteroid 2024 YR4 as part of a "kinetic disruption ...

To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique borrows from results obtained during a 2022 test mission for asteroid ...

Such a collision could have devastating consequences for satellites and astronauts in space, prompting a group of scientists ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working ...

HOUSTON -- Humanity could face one less doomsday scenario if NASA has its way. On Friday, the space agency announced plans to redirect the course of a small asteroid approaching Earth, as part of the ...