The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
A world preparing for one interstellar mystery is now confronting the legacy of another mission built for a different kind of threat. A silent shift in our planetary-defense strategy is underway.
NASA has identified an asteroid roughly comparable in size to the Empire State Building, traveling through space at about ...
Photos taken by the Italian LICIACube, short for the LICIA CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids. These offer the closest, most detailed observations of NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) ...
From its first detection using an instrument designed in part by teams based in the Bay, to follow-up orbit analysis ...
Major space missions in 2025 are reshaping exploration. Here's a detailed look at key NASA missions, global projects, and the ...