It’s been a long time in the making, but finally, humanity’s first major attempt at altering the course of an asteroid is on its way to the target. On Wednesday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from ...

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.

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 first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

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 ...

'Now we know we can aim a spacecraft with the precision needed to impact even a small body in space,' NASA says. UPDATE 9/27: NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully collided with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Images that NASA's DART spacecraft captured of an asteroid moments before it intentionally collided with the object in 2022 have now allowed researchers to gain fresh insights into the celestial ...

An image from NASA’s DART spacecraft shows the asteroid Didymos at lower right and Dimorphos, a moonlet that orbits Didymos, at upper center. (NASA / JHUAPL Photo) Ten months after NASA’s DART ...