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

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

Nasa's Dart mission wants to see how difficult it would be to stop a sizeable space rock from hitting Earth. The spacecraft will crash into an object called Dimorphos to see how much its speed and ...

Dart's achievement proves such an idea would work, provided it was initiated early enough and the target wasn't overly massive. "This mission shows that Nasa is trying to be ready for whatever the ...

Asteroids are rocky objects left over from the early days of our solar system, orbiting the Sun much like planets. While most ...

On November 24, 2021, NASA launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) on a long journey to the double asteroid ...

Alinda, measuring 2.6 miles wide, will be visible this weekend. Stargazers can spot it using basic equipment or watch a ...

Professor Alan Fitzsimmons has recently returned from ground control of the European Space Agency Hera mission at the ...

but NASA and ESA are planning ahead with the DART and Hera missions. Scientists have discovered nearly 36,000 near-Earth asteroids, but only a fraction of those are considered potentially hazardous.

Whereas DART was a NASA mission, its European counterpart ESA is responsible for the follow-up mission. They call it Hera, and it departed in October 2023 as the agency's first planetary defense ...

NASA launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission in 2022 to see whether humans could deflect an asteroid using the kinetic force of a high-speed rocket. The mission was a huge ...

NASA has recently declared that a massive asteroid is set to pass by Earth in December 2024, and while it’s big enough to catch anyone’s attention, there’s no need to worry. Scientists are ...