In the wake of NASA slamming a spacecraft into an asteroid, scientists have revealed the secrets of the space rock and its companion, possibly giving insights into how to save Earth from an asteroid ...

NASA's planetary defense mission has launched from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, which is tasked with the aim of slamming into an asteroid and altering its orbit.

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 body ...

The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is on its way to check out the damage NASA’s DART mission did to an asteroid called Dimorphos. Hera launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on ...

DART will slam into Dimorphos on September 26, which is a minor-planet moon of the asteroid Didymos. Image: NASA JPL DART Navigation Team NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is ...

The ESA’s autonomous Hera mission is going through preflight testing before it has to navigate the real Didymos asteroid system. The ESA’s autonomous Hera mission is going through preflight testing ...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) made history almost two years ago. This was the first time humanity attempted to intentionally alter the motion of a space rock. They succeeded. A ...

The latest discovery of asteroid Didymos' spinning activity confuses NASA and other astronomers. A television at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, captures the final images from ...

New findings show Dimorphos was formed by material shed from Didymos around 0.3 million years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works ...

NASA’s daring mission aims to knock an asteroid out of its orbit by striking it with a specially crafted spacecraft – a feat “so far seen only in science fiction films”. The mission is scheduled to ...

NASA has chosen SpaceX for a daring mission to crash into a “hazardous” asteroid’s moon – knocking it off course. The rocket firm – helmed by Tesla chief Elon Musk – will begin the mission in June ...