NASA’s DART mission tested asteroid deflection. Scientists analyzed ejecta patterns, momentum transfer, and deflection ...

On Wednesday, March 12, 2025, the European Space Agency’s planetary defence probe skimmed within 5000 km of the Red ...

According to the European Space Agency (ESA), the Red Planet’s gravity will tweak the probe’s path, cutting months off the journey and saving a lot of fuel.

With the "city-killer" Y24 asteroid headed for Earth, the world's largest space agencies are exploring ways to halt its ...

“My mission is to study the aftermath of NASA’s DART impact on the asteroid Dimorphos, advancing planetary defense by understanding asteroid structures and dynamics, enhancing techniques for potential ...

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter caught most of a dust devil plume in this 2008 image. The HiRise camera team said, "We got ...

Here are today's general risks from asteroids or comets both tiny and very large. Importantly, even relatively small rocks can still be threatening, as the surprise 56-foot (17-meter) rock that ...

Technology designed in Dublin will assist a European Space Agency (ESA) spacecraft called Hera as it navigates a close fly-by ...

In 2022, NASA successfully launched the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which collided with an asteroid moonlet named Dimorphos. This collision altered the asteroid’s trajectory ...

This cosmic kamikaze mission reportedly shortened its ... asteroid would be tiny,” he said, noting that DART only altered Dimorphos’ velocity by several millimeters. “Only over time does ...