It ultimately was successful, with NASA correctly predicting that it is possible to redirect celestial objects. The asteroid known as Dimorphos was approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...

When a vending-machine-sized spacecraft hit Dimorphos in 2022, planetary defense experts anticipated an easy test of kinetic ...

Here's everything to know about the James Webb Space Telescope, and what it captured on its three-year anniversary observing the cosmos. To mark Webb's third year of operations, NASA shared an image ...

NASA slammed a spaceship into an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza in an attempt to alter its course. The ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...

Astronomers estimate that an asteroid this large comes this close to Earth only about once every 7,500 years. It also appears ...

Scientists with NASA’s Lucy mission are finally wrapping up the process of refining the data gathered by the spacecraft’s ...

Newfound interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be carrying pristine material from early in the Milky Way’s star-forming history.

NASA has released new detailed images revealing a full-frame view of the peculiarly shaped asteroid Donaldjohanson.

On Easter Sunday (April 20), NASA's Lucy probe should have zipped past the asteroid Donaldjohanson, testing science instruments on the space rock.