It ultimately was successful, with NASA correctly predicting that it is possible to redirect celestial objects. The asteroid known as Dimorphos was approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, ...

NASA's DART spacecraft attempted to deflect an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. New work tracking the debris has found a few fairly large surprises.

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...

Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing the cosmos. To mark Webb's third year of operations, NASA shared an image ...

Our research shows that while the direct impact of the DART spacecraft caused this change, the boulders ejected gave an ...

Looks like Mars might have had more water than anyone previously imagined. A sweeping orbital survey charted over 9,320 miles ...

This week, astronomers spotted the third known interstellar visitor to our Solar System. First detected by the Asteroid ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...