Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...

When a vending-machine-sized spacecraft hit Dimorphos in 2022, planetary defense experts anticipated an easy test of kinetic ...

It is very unlikely that much surface ejecta would be ejected at just the right speed and inclination to clog the four choice orbits and it is really cross-inclined material that troubles spacecraft.

How does a planetary defense mission intended to push an asteroid off course manage to release a torrent of boulders with the same momentum as the spacecraft? NASA’s groundbreaking experiment, the ...

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.

In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...

When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...

The Plume Additive for Reducing Surface Ejecta and Cratering (PARSEC) is a tech meant to reduce the amount of regolith debris thrown up during Moon landings ...

The "Golden Handle" appears each month when the sun illuminates a mountain range lining a vast impact crater. Saturday night ...

NASA’s DART impact on Dimorphos unleashed boulders with more force than expected, complicating future defences.