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 ...

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 ...
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Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Team - 2024 Michael Collins Trophy Winner

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission Team was awarded the 2024 Michael Collins Trophy for Current Achievement. In 2022, NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission ...
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NASA says asteroid mission was successful, altered orbit by 32 minutes

(The Hill) – NASA on Tuesday said its historic planetary defense mission was successful after a spacecraft that purposefully smashed into a tiny asteroid called Dimorphos last month altered its orbit ...
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DART spacecraft's asteroid impact informs new planetary defense strategy

When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first experiment. The message reached NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, ...
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NASA's asteroid target practice may not have been the success we thought

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: ...
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Spacecraft Dislodged Millions of Pounds of Asteroid When It Smashed Into It at 14,000 MPH

We're not thinking about this all the time, but every single day we live under threat from asteroids, comets, and other kinds of celestial objects that may fall on our heads and end it all. Luckily, ...