The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution of the debris cloud created by the smash-up over the course of a month; ...

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 ...

Though Dimorphos posed no threat to Earth, the mission served as the first demonstration of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART. If an incoming asteroid is ever on a collision course ...

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.

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

Asteroid-detecting AI algorithms have already identified 27,000 new pieces of space debris, bringing the known number to 1.3 ...

Now, that isn’t to say that every potentially hazardous asteroid is actually a danger. It’s more of a safety precaution than anything. Spacecraft like DART could help us change the orbit and ...

ForbesRare Asteroid Spotted Hours Before Impacting Earth ... but NASA and ESA are planning ahead with the DART and Hera missions. Scientists have discovered nearly 36,000 near-Earth asteroids ...

Luckily, the hidden planet-killer asteroid doesn’t pose a direct threat to our way of life just yet, and NASA’s DART test saw a lot of success at changing the orbit of an asteroid last month.

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

The National Academy of Sciences calls for planetary defense to be a priority, an effort supported by NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which aims to test kinetic impact methods to ...