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

Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, talks to Space.com's Elizabeth Howell ...

In September 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft rammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at nearly 15,000 miles per hour (24,000 kilometers per hour). The mission aimed to test whether NASA could one day ...

When NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in September 2022, the goal was straightforward. Test whether humanity could shove a space rock off course. The mission ...

If an asteroid ever needs to be diverted from a collision course with Earth, a future planetary defense mission may resemble a test NASA pulled off four years ago. In 2022, NASA's DART mission proved ...

Bright streaks on a small asteroid moon looked, at first, like a camera problem. They were faint, fan-shaped, and easy to miss in the final images NASA’s DART spacecraft took before it slammed into ...

NASA has successfully and intentionally crashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into an asteroid. It is part of a test to see if scientists can alter the path of the Dimorphos ...

NASA is preparing to launch a spacecraft that will purposely crash into an asteroid’s moon, part of the space agency’s goal of developing technology that could one day prevent a hazardous asteroid ...

HOUSTON—The NASA-led Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission continues to furnish data supporting work on strategies for diverting the course of large asteroids that could impact Earth, a ...

The likelihood of an impact isn’t low. A 2025 analysis led by the planetary scientist Carrie Nugent estimates asteroids 460 ...