A test to protect Earth from asteroids unleashed a swarm of boulders—and a new study suggests that there may be some ...
Instead of forming a crater, the agency’s intentional DART crash redistributed massive amounts of the asteroid and shot large quantities of rock into space Will Sullivan Daily Correspondent An ...
The asteroid that NASA flung a spacecraft into was deformed by the collision, but it appears to have reshaped itself and healed. The asteroid, named Dimorphos, was slammed into by NASA's Double ...
Nearly two years after NASA's DART spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid to test a planetary defense method, scientists continue to see results from the mission showing that this plan ...
When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft intentionally slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022, the impact may have caused “global deformation” of the space rock ...
This image from a video animation provided by NASA in October 2023 depicts the spacecraft Psyche approaching the asteroid Psyche. A NASA spacecraft has rocketed away on a six-year journey to a ...
A NASA mission known as DART — Double Asteroid Redirection Test — slammed into an asteroid just moments ago, in a test of technology that could, if necessary, divert a killer asteroid bearing ...
A spacecraft built by Nasa is set to intentionally crash into a small asteroid as part of a planetary protection test mission. While this asteroid – named Dimorphos – poses no threat to Earth ...
A spacecraft quietly speeding its way through the Solar System has caught its first glimpses of the asteroids it was sent to investigate from a distance of hundreds of thousands of kilometers.
Nasa's OSIRIS-APEX has successfully reestablished connection after a two-month silence during its venture 25 million miles closer to the sun than its intended operational range, as it navigates ...