The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Plenty of asteroids can survive their fiery plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere. If they’re big enough, they can prove ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

(The Hill) – NASA on Tuesday said its historic planetary defense mission was successful after a spacecraft that purposefully smashed into a tiny asteroid called Dimorphos last month altered its orbit ...

NASA is scheduled to launch a "planetary defense-driven test" late Tuesday night. The goal of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is to adjust the speed and path of an asteroid by using ...

Because it's big enough to be deemed a "city killer," asteroid 2024 YR4 became a source of alarm due to the uncommonly high risk it had of colliding with Earth on Dec. 22, 2032. While Earth may no ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Such a collision could have devastating consequences for satellites and astronauts in space, prompting a group of scientists to ...