CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.-- A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth. The galactic slam occurred at a ...

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 ...

NASA has successfully smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid seven million miles from Earth. The last image from the "vending machine-sized" collider showed the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos ...

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...

In late 2022, NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in case a similar space rock were to ever head straight for Earth ...

The moment a NASA spacecraft crashed into an asteroid at hypersonic speed was captured by observatories back on Earth. Pictures from telescopes show the galactic collision playing out seven million ...

A rocket has blasted off into space on a mission to discover what happened when a spacecraft intentionally crashed into a small asteroid. Hera is a planetary defence mission from the European Space ...

In late 2022, NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in case a similar space rock were to ever head straight for Earth ...

NASA on Wednesday launched a spacecraft with one simple mission: Smash into an asteroid at 15,000 mph. The mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, left Earth to test whether slamming a ...