The mission without a doubt proves that we could deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth — so long as we discover it in ...

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

"Extremophile" bacteria could survive asteroid impacts that are strong enough to launch them into space, suggesting that life could travel between planetary bodies.

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4, once feared to hit the moon in 2032, is now expected to safely miss the lunar surface by about 13,000 miles, according to recent observations from the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Studying the 2022 collision's effects can help scientists protect the Earth from celestial objects that might head toward us ...

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits.

China's Tianwen-2 spacecraft captured a selfie with Earth when it was about 26.7 million miles (44M km) from Earth and 28 million mi. (45M km) from asteroid 2016HO3. Credit: Space.com | footage courte ...

New analysis reveals that the DART Mission impact did make a difference and altered the entire binary asteroid’s path around the sun.