NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

After Hera speeds past Mars, it's onward to Didymos and its now -misshapen companion Dimorphos (thanks to the collision), ...

Dimorphos, as you might recall, was part of NASA's DART mission, a planetary defense test that saw a spacecraft intentionally crash into the asteroid. The goal was to see if the impact could alter ...

Dimorphos, as you might recall, was part of NASA's DART mission, a planetary defense test that saw a spacecraft intentionally crash into the asteroid. The goal was to see if the impact could alter ...

Dimorphos, as you might recall, was part of NASA's DART mission, a planetary defense test that saw a spacecraft intentionally crash into the asteroid. The goal was to see if the impact could alter ...

Dimorphos, as you might recall, was part of NASA's DART mission, a planetary defense test that saw a spacecraft intentionally crash into the asteroid. The goal was to see if the impact could alter ...

An asteroid dubbed “Lucy’s baby” after a NASA spacecraft discovered it orbiting another asteroid last November is in fact a ...

ESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its ...

In 2022, the DART spacecraft successfully plunged into a space rock dubbed Dimorphos. The test showed that it is possible to redirect an asteroid, potentially saving Earth from a future cataclysm ...

The DART mission was designed to test how slamming a spacecraft into the side of an asteroid would impact how it travels through space, and therefore if doing so could successfully deflect a space ...

On 26 September 2022 NASA's van-sized DART spacecraft impacted the Dimorphos asteroid at around 6.1 km/s. This first test of the 'kinetic impact' method of planetary defense succeeded in modifying ...