On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, and raised hopes that a space rock could be deflected from a collision ...
A new study suggests that millions of tiny space rock fragments, which were ejected from the 2022 collision between asteroid Dimorphos and NASA's DART spacecraft, may be on a collision course with ...
In 2022, NASA successfully altered an asteroid’s orbit using a kinetic impact test, marking a breakthrough in planetary defense. Upcoming missions from ESA, JAXA, and NASA aim to study asteroids, Mars ...