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 ...

Can a nonprofit help protect Earth from dangerous asteroids? How the B612 Foundation has taken on the challenge

For nearly a quarter-century, the nonprofit B612 Foundation has helped scientists track dangerous asteroids and educated the ...
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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'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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Scientists Say Heck, Just Nuke a Killer Asteroid Heading for Earth

In a new paper, an international team of researchers revisited the idea of blowing up an incoming asteroid with a nuclear ...
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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 ...
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Do look up: How Earth can defend itself against asteroid

- Smash a spacecraft into it - Only one planetary defence strategy has been tried out on an actual asteroid. In 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) deliberately smashed a spacecraft ...