LAUREL, Md. — For the first time in history, a spacecraft from Earth has crashed into an asteroid to test a way to save our planet from extinction. The spacecraft, NASA's Double Asteroid ...

The deliberate 14,000-mph crash of a small NASA probe into the asteroid Dimorphos two weeks ago nudged the 525-foot-wide body onto a slightly different course, NASA confirmed Tuesday — shaving ...

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 real-world test of humanity's ability to nudge a threatening ...

In a world first, NASA has crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to push the rocky traveler off its trajectory. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test – or DART – is meant to test ...

Traveling at 14,000 miles per hour, a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid on Monday evening. But the crash was intentional: NASA meant to alter the flying rock’s trajectory in space.

a spacecraft traveling more than 14,000 miles an hour smashed into a small, unsuspecting asteroid that had been floating through space undisturbed for eons. The collision between NASA’s Double ...

NASA successfully crashed the DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos in a one-way mission to redirect its orbit as part of a planetary defense test on Monday night. The DART was used as a ...

On Monday night, it will connect. By Kenneth Chang Follow live updates on NASA’s DART mission to crash into an asteroid. An asteroid minding its own business not too far from Earth is about to ...

NASA is set to test its "Armageddon"-like ... space agency's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, will crash into the asteroid Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid named Didymos ...

NASA’s DART mission has just unearthed ... it’s clear that the DART mission has done more than just crash into an asteroid. It has propelled our understanding of these ancient space travelers ...

NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid Monday, marking a win for the agency's plan in case a devastating asteroid collision should ever threaten humanity. The 1,260-pound Double Asteroid ...

LAUREL, Md. — NASA managed Monday to crash a small spacecraft directly into an asteroid, a 14,000-mile-per-hour collision designed to test whether such a technology could someday be deployed to ...