What happens when NASA crashes a spacecraft into an asteroid? Scientists thought they knew, but the results of the DART mission left them baffled! What went wrong? Watch to find out!

"Scientifically there's a huge amount we can learn from asteroids," says Alan Fitzsimmons, an astronomer at Queens University ...

Theo Burman is a Newsweek Live News Reporter based in London ... of an asteroid in 2022 using kinetic impactors. DART was tested by NASA in 2022 on the Dimorphos asteroid, successfully altering ...

The threat posed by the space rock, estimated to be between 40 and 90 metres in diameter, is the highest ever recorded for an object of its size.

Nasa has already successfully tested technologies to deflect asteroids, most notably during its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission in 2022, which redirected an asteroid twice the size ...

NASA data released Tuesday said there is now a 3.1 percent chance a "city-destroying" asteroid could smash into Earth in 2032. The asteroid named 2024 YR4 is being carefully monitored by the ...

Space probe Hera passed Mars while on its way to the Didymos asteroid system as part of planetary defence mission.

open image in gallery NASA's DART mission in 2022 proved that Earth ... However, more than 100 million people do live in places that could potentially be hit by 2024 YR4. This corridor stretches ...

Nasa has already successfully tested technologies to deflect asteroids, most notably during its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission in 2022, which redirected an asteroid twice the size of ...