NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...

An asteroid first spotted in December has a 1.2% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. Scientists are tracking the space rock to ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft as it would look in space. Dimorphos is a small moonlet that orbits the bigger asteroid Didymos. In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos to see if it could change ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

This asteroid, which measures between 65 to 147 feet in diameter, will zoom past our planet at a distance of 18 lakh kilometres. Moving at a brisk pace of 22,400 kilometres per hour, its closest ...

Planetary defense is a global imperative, of course, but for the time being, NASA — and, by extension, the United States — is ...

DART is targeting the asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos to test the impactor technique in an easily measurable way. The spacecraft will smash its 550 kilograms into Dimorphos at 24,000 km/h ...

SpaceX is set to launch the European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft, designed to study the asteroid Dimorphos, today (Oct. 7). The mission will assess the impact made by NASA's DART (Double ...