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 ...
Astronomy

Martian moon caught on camera during Hera flyby

Hera, European Space Agency’s (ESA) flagship planetary defense mission that launched in October 2024, took images of Mars and Deimos, one of its two moons, March 12. The mission’s flyby was used as a ...
AOL

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, ...
Digital Journal

Do look up: How Earth can defend itself against asteroid

In 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) deliberately smashed a spacecraft into the 160-metre-wide Dimorphos asteroid, successfully altering its orbit ...
New Scientist

NASA's asteroid deflection test had unexpected and puzzling outcome

After NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, its orbit slowly but surely changed over the next month, and astronomers can’t explain why. In 2022, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) flew ...