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After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfully impacted its asteroid target Sept. 26, the agency’s first

The DART mission was testing whether a spacecraft could be used to nudge an asteroid off course.

A new stunning image shows that two days after NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the space rock had grown a tail of glowing debris ext

A new image shows the aftermath of NASAs asteroid defense test last month against an Armageddon-style end-of-the-world scenario.

History was made Monday night when NASAs Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft successfully slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos.

NASAs Juno spacecraft has flown extremely close to the surface of the sixth largest moon in the solar system, Europa, and has sent back historical images.

Millenia ago, a singular asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, and for decades, scientists have been exploring the possibility of this happening again.

The SOAR Telescope in Chile, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, imaged the more than 10,000 kilometers long trail of debris blasted from the surface of Dimorphos two

From an epic asteroid impact to a swirling hurricane seen from ISS, NASA has given us exciting space photos this week!

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test, aimed at changing an asteroid's path as a method of protecting Earth from asteroid strikes, succeeded at striking a tiny moonlet 7 million miles away.