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

NASA will crash a spacecraft into an asteroid over 6 million miles away from Earth in just a couple of days. The DART test has been in the works for years; NASA first announced DART in 2019 ...

Every year, over 3,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are found by NASA's survey telescopes. With the use of more powerful and ...

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Last month, NASA did the unthinkable. After first announcing the Direct Asteroid ...

NASA’s bold mission to save Earth from a killer asteroid. We're sorry, but something went wrong while fetching your podcast feeds. Please contact us at plus@slate ...

ESA's Hera mission has successfully executed critical maneuvers to align with the Didymos binary asteroid system, leveraging Mars for a gravity assist to shorten travel time. As it journeys, Hera will ...

The September 2022 crash by NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft marked the first part of a planetary defence test that could one day save the planet. With help from powerful ...

The late theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking predicted our planet's demise by 2600. Does NASA agree with him?

Two European cubesats have communicated that they are a-ok as they hurtle toward a binary asteroid system to check out the damage inflicted by NASA's DART impactor in 2022. DART, the Double ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) 's Hera asteroid probe, has successfully completed a critical milestone in its mission to ...