On September 11, 2022, a critical step in planetary defense was taken as NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, traveling over 5 million miles through space, performed the world’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists reveal how the DART mission asteroid impact blasted 35 million pounds of debris and changed Dimorphos’ orbit. (CREDIT: ...

The asteroid Dimorphos, left, is shown with its larger companion Didymos in space as it blasts dust and boulders in a lopsided debris cone following the NASA DART mission on Sept. 26, 2022. Credit: ...

Picture this. You're sitting at breakfast, scrolling the news, when suddenly headlines scream that a space rock the size of a football stadium is barreling toward Earth. Your coffee goes cold. Your ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first real-world test of a bold planetary defense idea: Could a spacecraft push an ...

On the count of three, engineers in the Johns Hopkins University control room erupt in cheers. It’s early fall 2022, and amid rows of computer monitors and a dozen television screens, the team ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's DART spacecraft appeared to successfully make direct impact with a small asteroid on Monday evening in an effort to divert it. The event was streamed live. "We have ...

The world’s first full-scale planetary defense test is in motion. The mission is called DART and what scientists learn from it could save humankind from a future catastrophic event. Nancy Chabot is a ...

These images, showing ejecta around the impacted near-Earth asteroids, were taken during the approach (with Didymos to the upper left) and departure (Didymos to the upper right) of DART's companion ...