Though the days are fast ticking by, that success is far from assured. DART is the first-ever test of what NASA calls a ...

If asteroid deflection missions aren’t conducted with the utmost care and precision, they may send objects through a ...

Scientists caution that asteroid deflection must be precise, as striking the wrong spot risks sending it through a ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system on Sept. 26, ...

To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...

Rahil Makadia, a NASA Space Technology Research Fellow from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, stated at the EPSC-DPS2025 conference: 'Even if we intentionally push an asteroid away from ...

CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...

A spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch. The DART mission, or NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will lift off at 10:20 p.m. PT on November 23 aboard a ...

Selecting the right spot to smash a spacecraft into the surface of a hazardous asteroid to deflect it must be done with great ...

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 ...