It ultimately was successful, with NASA correctly predicting that it is possible to redirect celestial objects. The asteroid known as Dimorphos was approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, ...

NASA Sends Rocket to Collide with Asteroid Asteroids could potentially wipe out the human race, that is why NASA is sending out a rocket to collide with an asteroid as part of our planetary defence ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

A comprehensive plan to address planetary defense must include two elements, said Ed Lu, a former NASA astronaut who co-founded the B612 Foundation to protect Earth from asteroid impacts.

NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.

The report comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s initial budget proposal for NASA, which calls for historically large cuts to the space agency.

NASA has announced that an asteroid about 200 feet in diameter is now slightly more likely to crash into the moon.

NASA’s Planetary Defense Strategy and Action Plan faces several significant challenges in efforts to detect, track and mitigate potential hazards posed by NEOs.