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 ...

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 ...

NASA says its asteroid defense test was a success NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to throw it off course. The mission succeeded beyond expectations, officials said.

A spacecraft that NASA launched last year succeeded in changing the space rock's orbit. It was a test of planetary defense in case Earthlings really need to move an incoming asteroid someday.

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

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's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, the world's first planetary defense test mission, is scheduled to launch early Wednesday morning.

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. Exactly as planned, NASA’s Double ...

The NASA DART spacecraft will impact the asteroid Dimorphos on the evening of Sept. 26. The asteroid, which has a diameter of 525 feet, poses no threat to Earth.