Australian hypersonic plane completes first test flight at five times speed of sound

A rocket due to launch from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in the US state of Virginia this weekend will carry with it a ...

NASA's DART: Redirecting an asteroid to protect Earth

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

Bam NASA's Dart spacecraft slams into moonlet in asteroid system

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

Earth defenceless against THOUSANDS of ‘city killer’ asteroids in space as Nasa chief admits it ‘keeps me up at night’

EARTH cannot defend itself against the thousands of “city killer” asteroids that are zooming around space near our planet, Nasa chiefs warn. They reckon there are about 15,000 undetected ...