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

Launched in 2021 on the world’s first planetary defense exercise, the Dart spacecraft deliberately plowed into Dimorphos, ...

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it -- a test to prove ...

Smashing a spacecraft into a binary asteroid system has managed to alter its path around the sun, a new analysis reveals ...

Observations from a global network of telescopes helped verify that NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully altered the orbit of the asteroid moon Dimorphos. The measurements confirmed the first planetary ...

NASA's DART mission successfully altered an asteroid's trajectory, a breakthrough in planetary defense. By colliding with Dimorphos, scientists demonstrated the potential to prevent future asteroid ...

Astronomers say Asteroid 2024 YR4 will dodge the moon entirely in 2032, ending speculation about a possible collision with Earth's nearest solar system neighbor. But the missed st ...

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

Chalk up another victory for “Conan the Bacterium”—a rugged germ that fresh research suggests could conquer the solar system.

An experiment on board the ISS tested the use of microorganisms to mine asteroids in the microgravity environment.

The tiniest life forms are also among Earth’s toughest, from near-invincible tardigrades to extremophilic microbes that ...