Medicine & TechnologyThe goal of NASA's planetary defense experiment is to ram the DART vehicle into a rock and alter its trajectory in order to assess the viability of diverting additional items that may be heading tragically toward the earth.
NASA is launching a spacecraft with a daring mission dubbed Double Asteroid Redirection Test or DART to crash into an asteroid to explore the different defense options for Earth in case an actual threat happens.
NASA is preparing to launch the first anti-asteroid defense spacecraft this November 24 in preparation for a future asteroid collision that is a threat to Earth.
NASA and Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory is expected to launch DART aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to manage the direction of Didymos' moonlet, Dimorphos.
On the night of November 2021's Beaver Full Moon, an asteroid as big as the Great Pyramid of Giza will pass by Earth along with a slightly smaller asteroid.
A study suggests that the Earth's constant companion asteroid as big as a Ferris wheel could be a fragment of the Moon because it has the same patterns as those lunar rocks from Apollo missions.
A massive asteroid similar to the size of Dubai's Burj Khalifa, the tallest man-made building on this planet is heading for this planet as shown in the asteroid tracker of NASA.
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is off to an exciting mission: to crash into an asteroid to change its course. The team has a launch window in February 2022 after a delay in November.
NASA is hoping to launch the DART mission as soon as possible. As a result, the space agency will hold a news conference on the probe's departure later this month.
Physicists propose a novel strategy for safeguarding the Earth against cosmic collisions by using rocket-powered explosives to 'slice and dice' dangerous asteroids.
NASA Lucy asteroid probe settles into cruise mode as engineers work to fix a solar array issue. While engineers investigate the problem, the spaceship is safe.
A tiny problem with the solar panels on NASA Lucy Spacecraft bound for the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter has been discovered, but the probe is not in immediate danger.