NASA's DART spacecraft and the 2nd stage booster captured 'captured about 10 hours after launch," by the Virtual Telescope ...

NASA’s $324.5 million DART spacecraft flew into an asteroid about half a mile in diameter, and was smashed into thousands of bits and pieces on Sept. 26, 2022. But instead of sighs, the impact was met ...

The likelihood of an asteroid hitting Earth in the next hundred years is a topic of much debate among scientists. While it is ...

Itokawa, around 1.2 million miles from Earth, is a 'rubble pile' asteroid - so a spacecraft would pass through it, report ...

Our fragile planet Earth hangs in the balance as our interconnected global society faces geopolitical and climate crises.

DART, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, is the first space mission to test this or any other asteroid deflection ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will add another asteroid encounter to its 4-billion-mile journey. On Nov. 1, 2023, the Southwest ...

The probability of an Earth impact by a space rock, called a meteor when it enters the atmosphere, of that size range is ...

The scientists acknowledged a recent NASA experiment on the matter, saying “much remains to be learned from the successful impact of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on the ...

Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi shared his observations of the flyby live in a webstream. Asteroid 2023 BU zipped past Earth ...

While NASA’S successful Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) proved last year that we are capable of knocking a giant piece of space rock off its trajectory, a future scenario may need more ...