NASA's unprecedented asteroid experiment is still churning out results. Last year in a mission called DART, the space agency intentionally slammed a sacrificial spacecraft into an asteroid called ...

The DART spacecraft takes its final full picture of Dimorphos, an asteroid moonlet of Didymos, as it approaches at 14,000 mph. Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins APL The need to learn how to save the world ...

Rocky debris blasted away from the tiny asteroid Dimorphos when NASA's DART spacecraft intentionally slammed into it in 2022 could create the first human-made meteor shower known as the Dimorphids, ...

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 ...

In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a tiny asteroid to nudge it off its orbital course. The mission was a success in testing an asteroid deflection method that may come in handy one day, ...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test did not simply knock a small space rock off course. The 2022 kinetic impact reshaped the moonlet Dimorphos, altered its orbit far beyond expectations, and even ...

Newly christened “Dimorphos” is a tiny space rock with a big target on its back. Dimorphos is a moonlet asteroid that orbits a larger asteroid known as Didymos. Until now, the moonlet has gone by cute ...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test did more than shove a small moonlet off its local path. New peer-reviewed research confirms that the September 2022 collision measurably shifted the entire ...