Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

NASA proved for the first time that a small spacecraft can deflect an asteroid. The DART mission collided with Dimorphos, ...

New data on the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) space mission three years ago reveals the extent of the impact damage ...

Planetary defence has become a critical global effort, uniting space agencies like NASA, JAXA, ESA, and ISRO to detect, track ...

On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination ...

NASA has taken the initiative and leadership in standing up the PDCO, enhancing detection and executing the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. DART was the first-ever demonstration of ...

NASA may have created a human-made meteor shower when DART crashed into Dimorphos. They are calling the flying debris Dimorphids.

The spacecraft is heading toward asteroid 65803 Didymos and its companion Dimorphos, on a mission to study the results of an intentional collision between NASA’s DART spacecraft and Dimorphos.

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these space rocks. The September 2022 collision of a spacecraft into the ...

NASA’s DART mission was designed to redirect an asteroid, but the collision produced unexpected results that scientists still ...

The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, launched 10 months ago. CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary ...