NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, has produced a result that goes well beyond what the mission ...

A new study shows NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART mission subtly changed an asteroid system’s orbit around the Sun.

Nasa has been reporting on its first Earth defence mission - when they crashed a spaceship into a meteor to see if they could bash it away, if they needed to.

Learn how bacteria survived a simulated asteroid impact and could travel between planets on asteroid debris.

Tiny life forms tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s ...

A 2022 NASA mission changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around its companion. New data shows their joint orbit around ...

In September 2022, as part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, a spacecraft collided with the small ...

In 1967, a hexagonal form of diamond, later named lonsdaleite, was identified for the first time inside fragments of the Canyon Diablo meteorite, the asteroid that created the Barringer Crater in ...

The experiment simulated the pressure of an asteroid strike and ejection from Mars by sandwiching the microbe between metal plates and then firing a projectile at it from a gas gun. The projectile hit ...