Dawn

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) launched at 1:21 a.m. ET on Nov. 24, 2021, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

DART team members have filled the spacecraft with fuel, and are running rehearsals as they approach launch on Nov. 23, 2021.

DART is the first mission that will demonstrate asteroid deflection by changing an asteroid’s motion in space through kinetic impact.

This page showcases our resources for those interested in learning more about the Lucy Mission.

New research found that Bennu's highly porous rocks are responsible for the surface's surprising lack of fine regolith.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has arrived in California, its final stop on Earth.

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft launched Oct. 16, 2021, on a 12-year journey to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.

JPL's lucky peanuts are an unofficial tradition at big mission events.

Set to launch next year, NASA’s Psyche mission marks the first time the agency has set out to explore an asteroid richer in metal than rock or ice.

DART's mission is to determine if flying a spacecraft into a small solar system body could be a reliable technique to deflect an asteroid.

Futuristic electric thrusters emitting a cool blue glow will guide the Psyche spacecraft through deep space to a metal-rich asteroid.

What's the next big thing? What might space missions in 2050 and beyond set out to discover?

Seven days after this historic milestone, a massive antenna at NASA’s Deep Space Network Goldstone complex imaged another, far larger object.

As part of NASA’s Discovery Program, the mission to explore a metal-rich asteroid is well on its way to an August 2022 launch.

The Next Full Moon is a Blue Moon, and is also known as the Hungry Ghost Moon.

Models and lab tests suggest the asteroid could be venting sodium vapor as it orbits close to the Sun, explaining its increase in brightness.

Perched atop a stand in a high-ceilinged clean room, DART is beginning to look like the intrepid spacecraft that will aim itself directly into an asteroid.

NASA researchers used OSIRIS-REx spacecraft data to better understand movements of the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu through 2300.

NASA's first spacecraft to explore the Trojan asteroids arrived July 30 at the agency's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.

When NASA’s DART spacecraft begins its final mission phase, it will see a 4-megapixel view of nothing but a few very dim dots of light.

The solar sailing CubeSat is one of several payloads hitching a ride on Artemis I, the first integrated flight of NASA's SLS and the Orion spacecraft.

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system.

NASA approved the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope to move to the next phase of mission development after a successful review.

After nearly five years in space, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is on its way back to Earth with rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu.

NASA's first asteroid sample return mission begins a two-year cruise home on May 10, 2021.