The European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft is now on a direct path toward the Didymos binary asteroid system, where it will ...

Explore how the DART mission advanced planetary defense using kinetic impactor technology and impactor hardware to enable real-world asteroid deflection strategies.

In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a tiny asteroid to nudge it off its orbital course. The mission was a success in testing an asteroid deflection method that may come in handy one day, ...

NASA has completed its first ever attempt to shift an asteroid as part of its planetary defense strategy. NASA's DART probe -- a.k.a. the Double Asteroid Redirection Test -- was taking aim at ...

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully changed the trajectory of the asteroid Dimorphos when the NASA spacecraft intentionally slammed into the space rock on September 26, according to the ...

Rocky debris blasted away from the tiny asteroid Dimorphos when NASA's DART spacecraft intentionally slammed into it in 2022 could create the first human-made meteor shower known as the Dimorphids, ...

Newly christened “Dimorphos” is a tiny space rock with a big target on its back. Dimorphos is a moonlet asteroid that orbits a larger asteroid known as Didymos. Until now, the moonlet has gone by cute ...