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 ...

Consider last year’s marquee space-rock event, when NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid as practice for deflecting any ... but we can also probably imagine ourselves hiking on a trail and ...

On September 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, bounced a cheap spacecraft into an asteroid to deflect ... bender increased the orbit by 32 minutes. A large debris trail was ...

More specifically McNutt says, “we launched with MESSENGER and had the second largest propellant mass fraction of any spacecraft that NASA has ever ... were triggered by asteroid impacts on ...

Mike Lewinski via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 This shower is known for its fast meteors that leave long, glowing ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris from the impact. Astronomers captured the scene millions of miles ...

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 ...

The Psyche spacecraft was supposed to launch for a strange metal asteroid, also called Psyche, in the main asteroid belt no later than October 2022. But that plan was derailed by issues with Psyche's ...

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 ...