The deliberate 14,000-mph crash of a small NASA probe into the asteroid Dimorphos two weeks ago nudged the 525-foot-wide body onto a slightly different course, NASA confirmed Tuesday — shaving 32 ...

On Monday, Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or Dart, made history as the first spacecraft to impact an asteroid and change its orbit. The spacecraft also provided a live feed of astonishing ...

On Sept. 26, NASA made history by successfully crashing into the Dimorphos asteroid with a NASA spacecraft. This was NASA's first ever attempt to shift an asteroid as part of its planetary defense ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A dramatic asteroid crash that slammed a NASA probe into a space rock in a first-of-its-kind test ...

Two weeks ago, the asteroid Dimorphos was minding its own business, quietly orbiting around its partner Didymos, when suddenly NASA’s DART spacecraft plowed into it at 14,000 miles per hour. The space ...

NASA has successfully conducted the world's first planetary defense mission, where the space agency launched a small spacecraft and hit a distant asteroid. NASA has announced that its Double Asteroid ...

After nearly a year in transit, NASA's experimental Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which sought to answer the questions, "Could you potentially shove a asteroid off its ...

Analysis of data obtained over the past two weeks by NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) investigation team shows the spacecraft's kinetic impact with its target asteroid, Dimorphos, ...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is a winner of the 2023 Gizmodo Science Fair for crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid and altering its orbit, in a pioneering test of planetary defense ...

NASA has completed its first ever attempt to shift an asteroid as part of its planetary defense strategy. NASA's DART probe -- a.k.a. the Double Asteroid Redirection Test -- was taking aim at ...

The spacecraft plowed into a space rock with the goal of demonstrating how an asteroid threatening Earth could be deflected. Kenneth Chang LAUREL, Md. — It’s the plot point for more than one Hollywood ...