NASA has completed its first ever attempt to shift an asteroid as part of its planetary defense strategy. NASA's DART probe -- a.k.a. the Double Asteroid Redirection Test -- was taking aim at ...

In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a tiny asteroid to nudge it off its orbital course. The mission was a success in testing an asteroid deflection method that may come in handy one day, ...

Scientists continue to pore over the results of NASA’s stunningly successful DART test to deflect a harmless asteroid. As the latest findings suggest, the recoil created by the blast of debris spewing ...

A Japanese space probe performed a flyby of a near-Earth asteroid on Sunday in a test mission for technology that could help ...