The label " space rock " feels like an understatement for what NASA just observed. A rock is something you throw at a window ...

Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

On September 11, 2022, a critical step in planetary defense was taken as NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) ...

The 55-feet-wide space rock is hurtling through space at a zippy 17,717 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense.

On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination was NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft flying ...

An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18, 2022.

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.