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 ...
StamfordAdvocate

NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid – photos show the last moments of the successful DART mission

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) David Barnhart, University of Southern California (THE CONVERSATION) In a world first, ...
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Close-up views of NASA's DART impact to inform planetary defense

Photos taken by the Italian LICIACube, short for the LICIA CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids. These offer the closest, most detailed observations of NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) ...
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, ...
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NASA to launch spacecraft that will crash into asteroid in the hopes of changing its orbit

In a mission that evokes images of the 1998 film "Armageddon," NASA next month will launch a spacecraft that it plans to deliberately crash into a near-Earth asteroid in the hopes of testing planetary ...