NASA's DART spacecraft and the 2nd stage booster captured 'captured about 10 hours after launch," by the Virtual Telescope Project.

NASA currently leads the nation's planetary defense efforts, but some are calling for the Space Force to take control.

Together, DART and Hera lay the foundations for future planetary protection missions. Focusing on asteroids that could pose harm to our planet, these missions require planning and execution at short ...

NASA wanted to see whether a kinetic impact - such as crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid at 13,645 miles per hour (6.1 kilometers per second) - would be enough to change the motion of a ...

When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels strike and pulverize two large boulders on the target, debris from ...

The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, is set to intentionally collide with an asteroid on Monday. The goal is to test the technology that could be needed for planetary defense ...

When NASA smacked an asteroid with a spacecraft the size of a vending machine in 2022, the mission was rather quickly declared a victory. DART, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, sought ...

Both NASA and SpaceX, a partner on the space agency's commercial crew program, will provide coverage of the Crew-11 rocket launch and subsequent Crew-10 water landing in California.