In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

NASA launches spacecraft on 12-year mission 09:27. NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy space rock that resembles an odd-shaped ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images Donaldjohanson is likely a fragment from a collision 150 million years ago, making it one of the youngest in ...

A Nasa spacecraft has captured its first detailed images of an unexplored asteroid, revealing a bizarrely shaped 150-million-year-old space rock. The asteroid Donaldjohanson, located in the main ...

It ultimately was successful, with NASA correctly predicting that it is possible to redirect celestial objects. The asteroid ...

Debris released from the asteroid Dimorphos during NASA's DART mission has a higher momentum and less random distribution ...

THERE may be a flaw in Nasa’s only defence against Earth-shattering asteroids, according to new analysis. In 2022, the US ...

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft had its second rendezvous with an asteroid over the weekend, this time with the uniquely named Donaldjohanson space rock. On April 20, the probe’s Lucy Long-Range ...

The Blue Ghost captured other first-of-its-kind images throughout its mission, including high-definition footage of a landing on the moon and images of the lunar eclipse on March 14.