NASA successfully deflected an asteroid for the first time - but in doing so accidentally unleashed swarm of boulders into ...

NASA’s DART spacecraft crashed into an asteroid at over six kilometers per second to test Earth’s first planetary defense plan. Engineers designed the mission to precisely hit Dimorphos and measure ...

NASA's DART mission successfully altered Dimorphos' orbit, but the impact unleashed over 100 boulders, significantly boosting ...

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

Debris released from the asteroid Dimorphos during NASA's DART mission has a higher momentum and less random distribution ...

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

THERE may be a flaw in Nasa’s only defence against Earth-shattering asteroids, according to new analysis. In 2022, the US ...

NASA's DART spacecraft attempted to deflect an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. New work tracking the ...

Three years ago, a NASA mission demonstrated something that seemed unthinkable years earlier. The mission, called DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), managed to redirect the t ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...

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 ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...