Last September, NASA crashed the refrigerator-sized DART spacecraft into a small asteroid named Dimorphos at a speed of some 13,000 mph (2,100 km/h). The impact not only successfully changed the ...

Researchers use high-tech instruments to study the dust left from the asteroid deflection test to learn more about our solar ...

NASA's dramatic Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a rousing success, scientists say. Before the DART spacecraft ...

New studies have revealed the spacecraft’s final moments and the remarkable aftermath of its impact Last September, NASA’s ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was Earth's first attempt at launching a spacecraft to intentionally collide with and deflect an asteroid as a planetary defense technique.

Adam Driver wondered how NASA would save the world if a giant asteroid were approaching. Three space missions show the agency ...

Instead, the binary asteroid looks like a single object from here, with most of the light reflecting off the far larger ...

A small nine-banded armadillo. At full size, these little armored mammals can be just over a meter long. (Illustrative) ...

The refrigerator-sized NASA satellite drove straight into Dimorphos at 14,000 mph - destroying itself in the process. The ...

Spectroscopic observations by the Very Large Telescope found no trace of water on the asteroid. Six months after NASA slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid at high speed, scientists are beginning ...

When the NASA DART mission slammed into a small asteroid, we knew with great precision how much the spacecraft weighed and how fast it traveled. If you combine that with our estimates of the ...

Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope teams have observed the aftermath of the collision between NASA’s DART spacecraft and the ...