"The United Nations declaration of June 30 as Asteroid Day is a very important milestone for us," Asteroid Day co-founder ...

The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution in December 2016, declaring June 30 International Asteroid Day.

International artist Yvette Mattern aims to light the sky with hope, despite last-minute hurdles A vibrant rainbow of laser ...

The city of Raleigh, N.C., and Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) have made new appointments to their respective leadership ...

The final snap was of Saturn itself, even capturing where the spacecraft would ultimately plunge to its final destination. Explaining that impressive final photo, NASA said: "This monochrome view is ...

NASA successfully crashed the DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos in a one-way mission to redirect its orbit as part of a planetary defense test on Monday night. The DART was used as a ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA officials said Tuesday that the DART mission to redirect the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos was more successful than they expected. During a 2 p.m. EDT press ...

A new study suggests that millions of tiny space rock fragments, which were ejected from the 2022 collision between asteroid Dimorphos and NASA's DART spacecraft, may be on a collision course with ...

In the months that followed NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, which sent a spacecraft to intentionally collide with an asteroid moonlet, the science team verified that ...

Scientists have analyzed images of the twin asteroids Didymos and Dimorphous taken by NASA's DART mission before it impacted the smaller space rock, revealing their age and origins.