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

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, ...

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 ...

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

NASA says its mission to knock an asteroid off course — a test of planetary defense — succeeded beyond its expectations. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) slammed a spacecraft into ...

The spacecraft NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet from its natural path into a faster orbit, marking the first time humanity has altered ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson called the first planetary defense test a “bullseye,” confirming DART’s impact changed the orbit of Dimorphos around Didymos by 32 minutes.

NASA tests planetary defense with asteroid collision Seven million miles from Earth, a NASA spacecraft crashed head on into a tiny asteroid Monday at a mind-boggling 14,000 mph, the first real ...

Planetary defense scientists say NASA’s DART asteroid redirection mission sent space rocks hurtling on unexpected ...

NASA has successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in the first-ever planetary defense mission aimed at changing the direction of a celestial body.

“This technique is thought to be the most technologically mature approach for mitigating a potentially hazardous asteroid,” NASA’s planetary defense officer Lindley Johnson explained in a ...

Why NASA’s first planetary defense mission sent a spacecraft crashing into an asteroid Nancy Chabot, mission lead for NASA’s test, says deflecting, not destroying, asteroids is the best way to ...