NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first experiment. The message reached NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, ...

In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid to test a planetary defense system — could the impact redirect the asteroid? That was the question, and it worked. Now the European ...

SpaceX has launched the Hera mission on the back of a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on October 7. The Hera mission is the European Space Agency's first planetary ...

Two years after a NASA spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, another mission to map the space rock is about to launch. The data it collects will refine Earth’s planetary defences against ...

In 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) deliberately smashed a spacecraft into the 160-metre-wide Dimorphos asteroid, successfully altering its orbit ...

UPDATE Oct. 7: The Hera mission lifted off today, Monday, Oct. 7 at 10:52 a.m. EDT. The launch livestream can be viewed below via the European Space Agency’s YouTube stream or on X via SpaceX’s ...

The asteroid Dimorphos was successfully deflected by humanity's first test of Earth's planetary defences - Copyright KCNA VIA KNS/AFP STR The asteroid Dimorphos was ...

(This story has been updated to reflect the latest information from the FAA.) In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid to test a planetary defense system — could the impact ...