In September 2022 NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. Called Dimorphos, the rock is the smaller asteroid in a binary pair; it orbits a larger one called Didymos. Slamming into Dimorphos ...

A rock and a hard place ...

There were concerns that Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon or Earth.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, has produced a result that goes well beyond what the mission ...

NASA’s DART mission changed the Dimorphos' asteroid orbit around the Sun, proving spacecraft impacts could help defend Earth.

In September 2022, as part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, a spacecraft collided with the small ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair ...

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger Didymos around the sun.

New observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope confirm asteroid 2024 YR4 will not hit the moon in 2032.

NASA has ruled out any chance that an asteroid called 2024 YR4 will hit the moon in 2032. Last year, the uncertainty surrounding the space rock's orbital path held out a slight chance of impact, but ...

Smashing a spacecraft into a binary asteroid system has managed to alter its path around the sun, a new analysis reveals But now the mission has revealed something even more profound: by slowing ...