NASA's DART spacecraft and the 2nd stage booster captured 'captured about 10 hours after launch," by the Virtual Telescope ...

Specs about DART spacecraft: DART without solar arrays: 6.2 feet in length × 5.9 feet in width × 8.5 feet in height Solar arrays: Each is 27.9 feet long Weight during impact: 1,260 pounds ...

DART launched on top of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the Vandenberg Space Force base in California. Roughly the size of a small car, the spacecraft has been developed by NASA and the Johns Hopkins ...

DART, NASA's first planetary defense mission, will demonstrate asteroid deflection by crashing the spacecraft, built by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), into an asteroid at ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears to be a stony, non-metallic type of asteroid known as an ordinary ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has to be able to image a framing of the night sky as large as seven full moons side ...

UK households are being advised to use this must-have household items to help deter squirrels and other garden intruders away ...

World Asteroid Day 2025 is upon us! Here's how you can celebrate the event by livestreaming real-time views of near-Earth ...

Noah Haggerty is an environment, health and science reporter at the Los Angeles Times. With a background in physics, he has ...

Daniel Popper of The Athletic identified "dart throws" as the "through-line in GM Joe Hortiz and coach Jim Harbaugh’s second ...

Tonight's launch was SpaceX's 68th Falcon 9 mission of 2025 and 71st overall liftoff so far this year. The additional three were test flights of Starship, SpaceX's next-generation super-heavy-lift ...