After ten months of flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully impacted the asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, 2022, at 7:14...

NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) targeted the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, a small body just 530 feet (160 meters) in diameter. It orbits a...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)is the first-ever mission dedicated to investigating and demonstrating one method of asteroid deflection by changing an asteroid’s motion...

Using seismic measurements, scientists have found evidence of an asteroid impact crater beneath the North Atlantic Ocean. According to scientists, this crater must have...

Diamonds can indeed be formed in a big asteroid impact. The asteroid impact carries such high levels of energy—more than 20 gigapascals, sending a...

Our expectations about the asteroid’s surface were utterly wrong. The latest findings about Bennu’s surface surprised scientists. The particles making up Bennu’s exterior are loosely...

A giant asteroid’s impact is considered the likely cause of the mass extinction of the dinosaurs almost 66 million years ago. While there is no...

Main-belt asteroid (16) Psyche is the largest M-type asteroid. Its surface is very heterogeneous. The asteroid has been a focus of numerous previous mapping...

In 2020, Japan’s Hayabusa2 space probe brought asteroid samples to Earth. The capsule carried by Hayabusa2 delivered more than 5.4 grams of surface material...