Planetary scientists have published a detailed follow-up on the debris from their historic 2022 asteroid impact experiment in outer space. What they found challenges their understanding of the ...
These images, showing ejecta around the impacted near-Earth asteroids, were taken during the approach (with Didymos to the upper left) and departure (Didymos to the upper right) of DART's companion ...
NASA's dramatic Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) was a rousing success, scientists say. Before the DART spacecraft intentionally crashed onto Dimorphos on Sept. 26, 2022, scientists knew very ...
When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first real-world test of a bold planetary defense idea: Could a spacecraft push an ...
The asteroid Dimorphos, left, is shown with its larger companion Didymos in space as it blasts dust and boulders in a lopsided debris cone following the NASA DART mission on Sept. 26, 2022. Credit: ...
On September 11, 2022, a critical step in planetary defense was taken as NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, traveling over 5 million miles through space, performed the world’s ...
For the first time, humanity has proved it can deliberately shove a small world off course. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, better known as DART, turned a one‑ton spacecraft into a guided ...