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

An artist’s illustration of Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission as it closes in on the asteroid Dimorphos (Nasa) Over the coming days, weeks, and months, scientists will begin ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

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 ...

NASA crashed a space probe into an asteroid on Monday night, practicing to deflect dangerous space rocks. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) hit the space rock in an effort to change its ...

The DART test has been a huge success. NASA shared footage of the DART spacecraft crashing into the asteroid Dimorphos last night. The spacecraft, which was designed to crash into the asteroid in an ...

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 ...

When NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon called Dimorphos in 2022, the moon was significantly deformed—creating a large crater and reshaping it so ...

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 ...

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, ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA officials said Tuesday that the DART mission to redirect the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos was more successful than they expected. During a 2 p.m. EDT press conference on ...

This first-of-its-kind mission changed the trajectory of its target asteroid. “This mission shows that NASA is trying to be ready for whatever the universe throws at us." The mission culminated a ...