NASA’s DART spacecraft intentionally collided with an asteroid in September, in an attempt to alter the space rock’s trajectory. The mission tested technology that could help defend Earth ...
Space agencies around the world understandably want to be prepared. To this end, NASA launched the Double Asteroid ...
NASA's DART space mission was a success and this is how the agency's technicians confirmed it: "We have impact!" they said. The US space agency managed to slightly deflect the asteroid Dimorphos ...
Like our moon, Deimos is tidally locked to Mars, meaning the same side always faces the planet—the only side visible to ...
New images of the mysterious Martian moon Deimos were captured when the Hera mission activated its instruments past Earth for ...
The DART spacecraft completed its 10-month journey when it collided with the asteroid Dimorphos, which is about 170 meters in diameter, with a successful trajectory deflection. According to ...
The likelihood of 2024 YR4 colliding with the our planet in 2032 have ticked up to over 3 percent. Is it time to start worrying?
Europe's Hera spacecraft flew by Mars this week on its way to catch up with an asteroid and tested out its cameras on the Red Planet's tiniest moon.
Could this technology be used? Andrews: Not necessarily. DART—a type of spacecraft called a kinetic impactor—was a great success. But it still only changed Dimorphos' orbit by a small amount.
An asteroid between about 130 and 300 ft. (40 and 90 meters) in diameter has been given a 2.3% chance of it hitting Earth on Dec. 22, 2032.