In this case, that dart is NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the spacecraft that crashed last November into the asteroid Dimorphos in hopes of redirecting its course. On March 2 ...

New studies have revealed the spacecraft’s final moments and the remarkable aftermath of its impact Last September, NASA’s ...

The DART spacecraft, weighing about 1,200 pounds (544 kilograms), slammed head on into the asteroid Dimorphos at 13,000 miles per hour (20,921 kilometers per hour), in an attempt to change the ...

The DART team sent a fridge-sized spacecraft on a collision course with Dimorphos, a 525-foot-wide (160-meter) asteroid that ...

Astronomers offer new insight into how deflection missions can protect the planet from future Earth-bound asteroids and comets.

NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos at a spot between two boulders during last September's first test of a planetary defense system, sending debris hurtling into space and ...

The battered asteroid Dimorphos also has five newly named boulders. NASA's dramatic Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a rousing success, scientists say. Before the DART spacecraft ...

Last fall, when NASA's DART mission impacted Didymos' moon Dimorphos in a dramatic (and successful) attempt to change the ...

Scientists have estimated that the asteroid could hit earth on February 14, 2046, but there is no reason to fear. NASA ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission rammed into an asteroid moonlet named Dimorphos last year, an event ...

Last year, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission tried to find out whether a “kinetic impactor” could do the job: smashing a 1,300-pound (600 kilogram) spacecraft the size ...