A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...

Launched in November 2021, DART traveled for more than 10 months before crashing into Dimorphos at roughly 14,000 mph. Though the tiny asteroid posed no threat to Earth, NASA had set out to ...

On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...

scientists may consider deflecting the asteroid—a tactic recently tested with NASA’s DART mission, which successfully altered an asteroid’s course in 2022. For now, though, there’s still a ...

But there's a chance we may be stuck with a few-percentage impact probability until 2028, when the asteroid makes its next Earth flyby. Bit awkward, if so. Ars: NASA's DART mission successfully ...

We know this can work. On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) collided with the tiny asteroid Dimorphos, more than 7 million miles from Earth. DART was a success ...

NASA’s first mission to test planetary defense technology, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), resulted in a successful impact with asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, 2022, which changed ...

Artist's impression of an asteroid. This image is not intended to ... to spot near-Earth objects (NEOs), and tests like NASA’s DART mission where a spacecraft was deliberately crashed into ...