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

NASA slammed a spaceship into an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza in an attempt to alter its course. The ...

Importantly, NASA says Dimorphos is not in fact hurtling toward Earth. It describes the asteroid moonlet as a small body just 530 feet in diameter that orbits a larger, 2,560-foot asteroid called ...

Mission control rooms rarely celebrate crash landings. But the collision of NASA’s DART spacecraft with an asteroid was a smashing success. At about 7:15 p.m. EDT on September 26, the spacecraft ...

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...

Stunning images showing NASA’s DART spacecraft’s intentional collision with an asteroid were released Tuesday. The Italian Space Agency shared the first images snapped by the tiny camera ...

A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid has successfully launched. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test lifted off at 10:21 p.m. PT on November 23.

DART is NASA's first planetary defense mission. It will test the idea that a spacecraft could nudge a potentially dangerous asteroid and change its path enough to protect Earth from impact.

Taken on October 27 2020, this imaging sequence shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully placing its sample collector head into the Sample Return Capsule. A few particles can also be seen ...

NASA retrieves material from asteroid 200 million miles away 00:24. A saucer-shaped capsule carrying asteroid fragments that may hold clues about the birth of the solar system slammed into Earth's ...

NASA mission to asteroid returning to Earth with a sample 05:53. A small saucer-shape capsule carrying a half-pound of rocks and dust collected from an asteroid called Bennu — leftovers from the ...

NASA will test its asteroid deflection technology in September 2022 to see how it impacts the motion of a near-Earth asteroid in space. ... or Light Italian Cubesat for Imaging of Asteroids, ...