The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...

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About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic neighborhood. Now, a team of astronomers led by the University of Maryland ...

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 ...

Back in 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully smashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, a kinetic impact experiment to see if we could knock a lethal space ...

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 ...

We're not thinking about this all the time, but every single day we live under threat from asteroids, comets, and other kinds of celestial objects that may fall on our heads and end it all. Luckily, ...

This year’s Asteroid Day has planned events worldwide and online. It acts as a reminder about advances in planetary defense.

On April 20, 2025, the Lucy spacecraft swooped by an odd-looking asteroid, capturing close-up views of its peanut-shaped body and cratered surface. The images told a brutal origin story, one that ...