NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid, in order to test how much a collision would deflect space rocks. On September 26, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is due to crash ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When NASA sent its DART spacecraft to slam into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, the U.S. space agency demonstrated that it was possible to change a celestial object's trajectory ...

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, ...

Six months after NASA slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid at high speed, scientists are beginning to gain a clearer picture of the mission's target. Careful scrutiny of the debris from the impact of ...

NASA successfully crashed the DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos in a one-way mission to redirect its orbit as part of a planetary defense test on Monday night. The DART was used as a ...

Kenneth Chang reported this article from the DART mission operations center at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. LAUREL, Md. — It’s the plot point for more than ...

NASA's planetary defense mission has launched from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, which is tasked with the aim of slamming into an asteroid and altering its orbit.

After NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory deliberately crashed a space probe into an asteroid two weeks ago, astronomers anxiously monitored the distant space rock to see if the ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test was the first time that humanity sent a spacecraft to measurably change the orbit of a celestial body. The mission was also the world’s first full-scale ...

NASA says its mission to knock an asteroid off course — a test of planetary defense — succeeded beyond its expectations. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) slammed a spacecraft into one ...