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

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught most of a dust devil plume in this 2008 image. The HiRise camera team said, "We got ...

NASA's DART space mission was a success and this is how the agency's technicians confirmed it: "We have impact!" they said. The US space agency managed to slightly deflect the asteroid Dimorphos ...

The likelihood of 2024 YR4 colliding with the our planet in 2032 have ticked up to over 3 percent. Is it time to start ...

NASA’s DART mission tested asteroid deflection. Scientists analyzed ejecta patterns, momentum transfer, and deflection ...

YR4 became the highest-rated asteroid predicted to strike Earth, and although predictions for impact have lowered, not enough ...

With the "city-killer" Y24 asteroid headed for Earth, the world's largest space agencies are exploring ways to halt its ...

NEO Surveyor will lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida's Space Coast no earlier than September 2027. The total value ...

Bit awkward, if so. Ars: NASA's DART mission successfully shifted an asteroid's orbit in 2022. Could this technology be used? Andrews: Not necessarily. DART—a type of spacecraft called a kinetic ...

“So much could go wrong if we try and hit it with something like DART,” said one researcher. NASA/Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab And while the odds of Armageddon might seem slim, Andrews ...

That recommendation could be to launch a space mission to deflect the orbit of the asteroid, as was done by NASA’s Dart mission, or simply, for example, if it was going to land in the ocean ...