The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.
The United Arab Emirates will launch a mission to visit several asteroids later this decade on a Japanese H3 rocket.
The asteroid Dimorphos had its 12-hour orbit shortened by a half-hour. Shortly after 7 pm EST, the DART spacecraft will smack ...
The Hera mission launched Monday from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40. It's destination - an asteroid system NASA altered ...
A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. It's the second part of a planetary defense test ...
The Hera spacecraft, which took flight late Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness.
Liftoff of the ESA/NASA Hera mission is set for Monday, sending a spacecraft on a two year journey to a familiar asteroid system.
The European Space Agency's Hera mission will set off from Cape Canaveral on 7 October on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It will ...
Mars and the Moon are the only two places Prof Cox could imagine seeing anybody visit and begin to build a permanent presence ...
Beginning Sunday, Earth's skies will soon have a temporary visitor. On September 29, an asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5 will become a "mini-moon" of sorts, temporarily entering Earth's orbit for almost ...
NASA has already sent its own space mission—the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)—to test the effectiveness of using kinetic impact to knock a potentially life-threatening asteroid off ...