The United Arab Emirates will launch a mission to visit several asteroids later this decade on a Japanese H3 rocket.

The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.

The Hera spacecraft, which took flight late Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness.

The asteroid Dimorphos had its 12-hour orbit shortened by a half-hour. Shortly after 7 pm EST, the DART spacecraft will smack ...

The mission is heading out into space to study the impact of NASA's successful high-speed collision with an asteroid in 2022.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission was the first planetary defense experiment, and it worked, successfully nudging Dimorphos off its regular orbit around a larger companion asteroid ...

At 14:52 GMT, the robotic probe lifted off atop a Falcon 9 rocket to begin its three-year mission. In 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft slammed into the pyramid-sized ...

The ESA spacecraft embarked on a two-year journey to the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos on Monday.

Europe's Hera probe successfully launched Monday on a mission to inspect the damage done by a NASA spacecraft that smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary defences.

In September 2022, NASA's DART mission deliberately crashed into the 151m-wide asteroid Dimorphos. Its goal was to see if smashing a vending machine-sized space probe into an asteroid could nudge ...

The destination of this surveying spacecraft is the same asteroid system NASA previously paid a visit to with its DART mission. In 2021, the NASA DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

The probe will head off on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft did to an asteroid when it smashed into it in 2022 during the first test of Earth's planetary defences. The Double ...