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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission that broke a distant asteroid may eventually cause craters on the surface of Mars.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) featured a refrigerator-sized spacecraft into a stadium-sized asteroid, and its impact changed it forever.

Astronomers originally believed that the asteroid Apophis had a chance of colliding with Earth in 2029 and now they are less concerned.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has confirmed an asteroid approximately the size of a stadium zoomed past Earth on February 2.

NASA has confirmed its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected more than doubled the expected amount of asteroid samples that have since been returned to Earth.

A space agency successfully collected samples from an asteroid called Ryugu, and scientists have now discovered the seeds of life within its samples.

The asteroid that exploded over west Berlin was only detected hours before it entered Earth's atmosphere, marking the 8th surprise asteroid entry.

NASA's Johnson Space Center has finally cracked open the capsule containing the samples from Bennu, a distant asteroid located millions of miles away.

NASA has announced it finally cracked the lid of its asteroid sample collection container, revealing the remainder of the valuable Bennu samples.

NASA has announced it has received a 15-second 4K video of a cat from 19 million miles, demonstrating new deep space communication capabilities.

NASA's Psyche spacecraft has fired a laser into the void of deep space at a metallic object located 10 million miles away from Earth.

Astronomers have detected a major cryovolcanic outburst on comet 12P/Pons-Brooks, marking the fourth and largest outburst from the massive comet yet.

For the second time this month, the 'devil comet' that is currently headed toward Earth has erupted, sprouting its iconic and very distinctive 'horns'.

An asteroid that passed close by Earth represents the greater threat of undetected space rocks potentially colliding with our planet.

NASA's retrieval mission from the asteroid Bennu was overall successful, but the space agency has announced a problem with the container.

A mysterious comet approximately the size of two Mount Everests stacked on each other is approaching Earth for the first time in decades.

NASA has revealed how many near-Earth asteroids it has discovered as of August 2023 while also showing how many it still expects to find.

Astronomers monitoring the massive volcanic comet that's the size of a small city have detected an outburst, making it a dozen times brighter.

NASA has revealed the contents of the capsule it transported back from asteroid Bennu, and the sample it collected contains the building blocks of life.

NASA has announced when it will reveal the first sample it collected from an asteroid, which was undertaken in its OSIRIS-REx mission.

NASA is very close to launching a spacecraft destined to orbit what could be the core of a planet floating around our solar system.

NASA achieved historic mission status by successfully transporting samples from an asteroid located in deep space back to the surface of Earth.

NASA has announced that the agency's first asteroid sample it has collected in space will arrive on Earth before the end of this week.

An asteroid that was discovered very recently zoomed past Earth at a distance that is 100 times closer than the moon or five times lower than satellites.

An asteroid estimated to be worth $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 is making its way closer to Earth ahead of an important NASA and SpaceX rocket launch.

A space-watching group has identified an asteroid that's between 1,214 and 2,723 feet in diameter, and it will be approaching Earth today.

A team of scientists that discovered an object following Earth as it orbits the Sun since 100 BC is actually a mysterious 'fake moon'.

A team of astronomers has completed a review of NASA data and found the chances of Earth being struck by a massive asteroid over the next 1,000 years.

A team of researchers from Australia just unearthed a multiple-billion-year-old meteorite that may be the oldest meteorite fragment ever found.

Astronomers have identified a 200-foot-wide asteroid that's expected to come between Earth and the Moon while it travels at more than 17,000 mph.

An astronomer has captured incredible footage of a speedy meteorite slamming into the surface of the moon from his home in Hiratsuka.

NASA's Near-Earth Object Close Approach database has confirmed that this week four asteroids will be making a close approach to Earth.

An asteroid that was recently identified plummeted to the surface of Earth only hours after it was discovered, and now the meteorite has been found.

An asteroid more than 3,000 feet wide is about to pass Earth, and it will make its closest approach to our planet in the last 400 years.

Skywatchers caught a falling asteroid on video only hours after the European Space Agency (ESA) was notified of the incoming space rock.

NASA has confirmed that its James Webb Space Telescope has accidentally snapped a photograph of a rogue asteroid that's called an 'interloper'.

An asteroid that was only discovered a few days ago, on January 21, is set to make a very close approach to Earth in the coming days.

The Hubble Space Telescope has accidentally photographed a rogue asteroid that streaked across a galaxy that Hubble had in its sights.

January and February may feature an incredible cosmic sight for skywatchers as comet C/2022 E3 makes its first approach to Earth in over 50,000 years.

Researchers have found that billions of years ago, Mars was rocked by a massive megatsunami that would have been as tall as an 80-story building.

Scientists have discovered the largest potentially hazardous asteroid, which has a diameter of nearly a mile and has been dubbed a 'planet killer.'

NASA's asteroid-tracking database has confirmed the existence of a massive asteroid estimated to be nearly 2,500 feet wide approaching Earth soon.

Astronomers have been looking for near-Earth asteroids for many years, and so far, they have found tens of thousands, but how many are dangerous?

NASA has released the results from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission and if the space agency's planetary defense mission was successful.

NASA has successfully collided a spacecraft into an asteroid, and the crash site will be investigated by a detective spacecraft in the coming years.

The James Webb Space Telescope and the Hubble Space Telescope have teamed up to provide unique views of NASA's DART spacecraft hitting an asteroid.

NASA has collided its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) into an asteroid, and researchers were shocked at how the asteroid brightened.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has successfully collided with its target asteroid millions of miles away, and here are its final images.

NASA has successfully collided its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into an asteroid located approximately 7 million miles away.

NASA has finally crashed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid, changing its orbit, and you can get a demonstration by simply Googling 'NASA DART'.