See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was impacted by NASA DART mission. Credit: SCIENCE: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jian-Yang Li ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect Earth from the threat of an asteroid impact. By smashing a ...

On November 24, 2021, NASA launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) on a long journey to the double asteroid ...

Efforts to protect Earth from asteroid impacts have made significant strides, notably with NASA’s DART mission, which successfully altered the orbit of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022.

Even small asteroids can do a lot of damage—and new research shows the James Webb Space Telescope is adept at spotting the tiniest of space rocks.

With 2024 coming to a close, we look at the biggest space achievements of the year from NASA, SpaceX, China, and more.

From the mysterious Planet Nine to the prospect of a "human-caused meteor shower," space and physics editor Brandon Specktor ...

An asteroid the size of around nine reindeer - coincidentally, how many reindeer Santa Claus supposedly uses - is set to pass ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) launched an augmented reality app meant to adverstise the Hera mission to the Dimorphos ...

Professor Alan Fitzsimmons, from Queen’s University Belfast, has recently returned from ground control of ESA’s Hera mission.

NASA and European Space Agency collaborating on planetary defense missions to determine if we can deflect near-Earth objects away from Earth.