The DART mission has proven that we can substantially affect potentially hazardous asteroids. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The ...

"The implication for planetary defense is that small, rubble-pile asteroids, like Dimorphos, are very efficient to deflect, and the kinetic impactor technique would be an appropriate deflection ...

A new study has found that NASA’s DART mission that slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid may not have had the impact once thought. The impact simulation study suggested that DART did not leave an ...

A new study provides insights on the geophysics behind asteroid formation and evolution. When NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft collided with an asteroid moon called Dimorphos ...

When NASA sent its DART spacecraft to slam into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, the U.S. space agency demonstrated that it was possible to change a celestial object's trajectory, if needed, to protect ...

The asteroid Dimorphos was captured by NASA’s DART mission just two seconds before the spacecraft struck its surface on Sept. 26, 2022. Observations of the asteroid before and after impact suggest it ...