No? Well then you’re in luck, because NASA is just a few hours from intentionally smashing a probe into the minor planet Dimorphos as part of Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ...

The dramatic mission to alter an asteroid’s trajectory created a debris trail stretching tens of thousands of miles behind the “moonlet” Dimorphos, according to NASA. Scientists say the ...

after Lucy made the first of three planned Earth flybys that will help fling the spacecraft out toward the orbit of Jupiter. Related: NASA asteroid surveyor snaps stunning views of Earth and moon ...

The spacecraft is on track to reach its strange metallic destination by 2029. (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) (opens in new tab) NASA's Psyche asteroid ...

The NASA spacecraft, currently en route to visit Jupiter’s mysterious Trojan asteroids, will fly past a tiny main belt asteroid in order to test an innovative tracking system. The target ...

NASA is very pleased with the degree to which it rocked an asteroid's shit. The agency is pleasantly surprised by how much material was released when it intentionally smashed its Double Asteroid ...

"Oh my gosh," one presenter on the NASA screen as the spacecraft made contact. Dimorphos is part of a double asteroid system called Didymos. The idea is that by smashing into it at incredible ...

NASA’s DART mission smacked into an asteroid on Monday, for science. The experiment — which wrapped up on Monday night shortly after 7 pm EST with the total obliteration of the spacecraft ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--In the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away. A spacecraft named Dart will zero in on the ...

As the NASA Lucy spacecraft travels through the inner edge of the main asteroid belt in the Fall of 2023, the spacecraft will fly by the small, as-of-yet unnamed, asteroid (152830) 1999 VD57.