The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
Rocky debris blasted away from the tiny asteroid Dimorphos when NASA's DART spacecraft intentionally slammed into it in 2022 could create the first human-made meteor shower known as the Dimorphids, ...
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved asteroid moonlet Dimorphos "by a whopping 33 minutes," according to NASA. See the highlights here. Credit: NASA ...
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: ...
CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...