The dramatic mission to alter an asteroid’s trajectory created a debris trail stretching tens of thousands of miles behind the “moonlet” Dimorphos, according to NASA. Scientists say the ...

the world’s first trial of planetary defense technology, to redirect a potential dangerous comet or asteroid. That’s right. On September 26, NASA will fly its DART spacecraft straight into the ...

One of last year’s space highlights was the NASA DART mission’s collision with Dimorphos (seen right in the animation above), the small moon of the binary asteroid Didymos (seen left). The impact meas ...

NASA has announced ... yes, will trial a system developed to deflect potentially Earth-threatening asteroids or comets — is slated to smash into an unlucky asteroid next month, in September.

The NASA spacecraft, currently en route to visit Jupiter’s mysterious Trojan asteroids, will fly past a tiny main belt asteroid in order to test an innovative tracking system. The target ...

NASA The trial run has paved the way for future ... the motion of a celestial object in space. The spacecraft altered the moonlet asteroid’s orbit by 32 minutes. And that’s not all 2022 ...

NASA gave special permission to the team to use the Deep Space Network, a system of three enormous radio dishes on Earth, to place a 1-million-mile long-distance call to the little spacecraft.

Over the last few months, the proverbial ‘final frontier’ has very much been in the headlines.

The best Google Easter eggs of 2022 (and a few early ones from 2023, for good measure) bring a dose of fun and whimsy to our favorite search engine.

The trial of Alex Acevedo, expected to last only a few days at the Dirksen Federal Courthouse, is the first to result from that broader probe. It comes a little more than a month before the trial ...

“It was intentional all the way along,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Chapman said during his opening statement in Acevedo’s trial on charges ... ComEd bribery probe involving ex-House ...