There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

When a vending-machine-sized spacecraft hit Dimorphos in 2022, planetary defense experts anticipated an easy test of kinetic ...

NASA's DART mission successfully altered Dimorphos' orbit, but the impact unleashed over 100 boulders, significantly boosting ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

Scientists found that NASA's DART spacecraft ejected a massive barrage of boulders when it bashed into asteroid Dimorphos in ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

It ultimately was successful, with NASA correctly predicting that it is possible to redirect celestial objects. The asteroid known as Dimorphos was approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

Planetary defense scientists say NASA’s DART asteroid redirection mission sent space rocks hurtling on unexpected ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...

When NASA steered its Dart probe into an asteroid, it was supposed to determine how much it could be deflected. The ...

Primarily, an analysis of the craters and surface strength on Didymos indicated it formed about 12.5 million years ago, while its smaller companion, Dimorphos, formed about 300,000 years ago.