NASA is preparing to launch a spacecraft that will purposely crash into an asteroid’s moon, part of the space agency’s goal of developing technology that could one day prevent a hazardous asteroid ...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test did not simply knock a small space rock off course. The 2022 kinetic impact reshaped the moonlet Dimorphos, altered its orbit far beyond expectations, and even ...

In 1998, Bruce Willis saved the world by blowing up an asteroid threat in “Armageddon.” In 2022, NASA did the real thing, crashing a spacecraft into asteroid Dimorphos to prove that we don’t have to ...

Scientists analyzing images from NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission have found the first visual evidence that small asteroids exchange rocks and dust in a slow process that ...

When NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in September 2022, the goal was straightforward. Test whether humanity could shove a space rock off course. The mission ...

The "NEO Hunter" mission would use Blue Origin's Blue Ring spacecraft to deflect space rocks. This plan builds on NASA's successful DART mission, which proved an asteroid's path could be altered.