An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, ...

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

In September 2022 NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. Called Dimorphos, the rock is the smaller asteroid in a binary ...

A new study shows that, not only did the agency’s 2022 DART mission shift the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos, it also changed the path of its parent asteroid around the sun.

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

"The work continues." ...

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 ...

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 ...

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