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NASA said it’s aiming to bump Dimorphos slightly off its orbital path. The space agency...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket roared to life and soared through the dark California skies early Wednesday, carrying a small probe that could teach NASA how to save Earth from dangerous asteroids.

A dramatic nighttime launch from Vandenberg Tuesday night sent a NASA spacecraft to test whether it could knock an asteroid off course.

NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth.  The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Red

“This isn’t going to destroy the asteroid. It’s just going to give it a small nudge,” said mission official Nancy Chabot of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, which is managing the project.

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- NASA launched a spacecraft early Wednesday to test technology to alter the course of an asteroid by slamming into it, the world

After years of study and discussion, Nasa has launched its first effort to spare Earth the kind of calamity that extinguished the dinosaurs, crashing a space probe into an asteroid to alter its speed and course.

The mission, designed and managed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, is the world's first to test technology for defending the planet against potential asteroid or comet hazards

NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth.

NASA is ready to launch a spacecraft with a straightforward mission: smash with an asteroid at 15,000 mph.