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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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, ...

NASA DART team confirms slamming spacecraft into asteroids can deflect them

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 ...
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Galactic grand slam: NASA's Dart crashes into asteroid

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla — A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth. The galactic slam occurred at a ...
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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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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, ...