In this image provided by NASA, an impact plume emerges from the asteroid Dimorphos, left, after DART collides into it on Sept. 26, 2022, orbiting the larger asteroid Dimorphos. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.

A mysterious metal-rich asteroid called Psyche has been baffling scientists for over two centuries, and its true origin ...

NASA said earlier this month that an asteroid that at one point had a 4% chance of hitting the moon will miss the lunar object in 2032.

NASA’s DART mission changed the Dimorphos' asteroid orbit around the Sun, proving spacecraft impacts could help defend Earth.

Studying the 2022 collision's effects can help scientists protect the Earth from celestial objects that might head toward us ...

New observations have ruled out the chances of an asteroid hitting the moon in 2032, according to scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA's DART mission didn’t just change the orbit of Dimorphos, the asteroid it hit. It changed the orbit of the larger ...

NASA crashes spacecraft into asteroid to push it off course in landmark defense test - The Dart spacecraft deliberately plowed into the asteroid Dimorphos in the space agency’s first planetary defense ...

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

Continued study of the 2022 mission which slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid found a small, but growing change in orbit around the Sun.

The U.S. space agency measured the impact of its DART mission, revealing that the impact changed the orbit of two cosmic ...

An asteroid, previously used by NASA for a planetary defence test, has been successfully shifted onto a slightly altered path around the sun, scientists reported on Friday. This landmark achievement ...