The deliberate 14,000-mph crash of a small NASA probe into the asteroid Dimorphos two weeks ago nudged the 525-foot-wide body onto a slightly different course, NASA confirmed Tuesday — shaving 32 ...

NASA's DART mission is underway, launching atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 and aiming to answer one of the biggest questions in science – and sci-fi movies: can we avoid a potentially life-ending asteroid ...

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The DART payload, about the size of a vending machine, was released from the booster a few minutes after launch to begin a 10-month journey into space, some 11 million km from Earth. A spacecraft that ...

NASA’s DART spacecraft launched today will collide with an asteroid to see if its orbit can be changed. For the first time, humans are trying to change the course of an asteroid to see if potential ...