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/PRNewswire/ -- After 10 months flying in space, NASAs Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the worlds first planetary defense technology demonstration...

Mission control at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, announced the successful impact at 7:14 pm EDT on Monday. As a part of NASA’s overall planetar...

The DART mission will show that a spacecraft can autonomously travel to a tiny asteroid and establish this is a feasible way to divert an asteroid.

Using some of the world’s most powerful telescopes, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test investigation team has completed a six-night observation campaign to confirm earlier calculations of the orbit of Dimorphos

Dayna Ise has been named deputy manager of the Science and Technology Office at Marshall Space Flight Center.

Two engineers at Marshall Space Flight Center earned top honors April 28 at the annual NASA Cost and Schedule Symposium awards banquet, held in Cocoa Beach, Florida, near NASA’s Kennedy

Parallel ice ridges, a common feature on Jupiter’s moon Europa, are also found on Greenland’s ice sheet.

Finding plumes at Europa is an exciting prospect, but scientists warn it’ll be tricky, even from up close.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, launched Wednesday at 1:21 a.m. EST on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, launched Wednesday at 1:21 a.m. EST on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Just one part of NASA’s larger planetary defense strategy, DART – built and managed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland – will impact a know...