On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination ...

A NASA spacecraft successfully nudged a harmless asteroid aside in deep space, shifting the asteroid's orbit in a test mission to save the Earth.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is hurtling toward the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos, and it'll reach its target tonight (Sept. 26).

NASA will use its DART spacecraft to impact the faraway asteroid Dimorphos. The moonlet is nearly 7 million miles away from Earth and orbits Didymos.

Bullseye! NASA’s DART test was a smashing success, altering the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos The mission sets a precedent as to how humanity might deflect a deadly Earth-bound asteroid in the ...

Earthlings can sleep easier now that NASA's DART probe can deflect an asteroid with kinetic impact.