The DART mission achieved its goal of changing one asteroid’s orbit around another, but questions remain about why the orbit ...

At the time, the moon was known as Didymos b. But when the binary system became the target of NASA's 2022 Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, or DART, it was time for the moon to get an official ...

In late 2022, NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in case a similar space rock were to ever head straight for Earth ...

Scientists reveal how the DART mission asteroid impact blasted 35 million pounds of debris and changed Dimorphos’ orbit. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent ...

26, 2022, at 7:14 p.m. EDT, NASA smashed a pint-sized spacecraft ... a moonlet that orbited the larger asteroid Didymos. The duo posed little threat to Earth, but because they skim relatively close to ...

The Hera mission to follow-up on the aftermath of NASA's DART asteroid crash has caught sight of two other asteroids in an important test of its camera ahead of its rendezvous its main target: the ...

Stormy weather has threatened to delay the launch of Europe's Hera spacecraft, which is scheduled to blast off on Monday, SpaceX has said. The probe will head off on a mission to inspect the damage a ...