When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will impact a 'moonlet' in the Didymos asteroid system to attempt to alter its ...

撞击后，NASA 通过地基和太空望远镜观测到小行星身后长长的尾迹，12 天后依然清晰可见，使其外观近似彗星。 地面测量结果表明，Dimorphos 的公转周期缩短了约 33 分钟，验证了小型航天器也能改变与其相似成分小行星的运行路径。

Photos taken by the Italian LICIACube, short for the LICIA CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids. These offer the closest, most detailed observations of NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) ...

CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...

A spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch. The DART mission, or NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will lift off at 10:20 p.m. PT on November 23 aboard a ...

An artwork of NASA’s DART mission, which was a kinetic impactor designed to test whether it is possible to deflect an ...

We're not thinking about this all the time, but every single day we live under threat from asteroids, comets, and other kinds of celestial objects that may fall on our heads and end it all. Luckily, ...

Through a series of 28 pictures, astronomers learned the asteroid makes a full spin every five hours and is a " contact ...