The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...
On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...
NASA is studying interstellar object 3I/ATLAS to refine its planetary defence systems, using the comet's rare trajectory as a ...
The DART mission achieved its goal of changing one asteroid’s orbit around another, but questions remain about why the orbit ...
A team of researchers has put forth the idea of launching nuclear devices at asteroid 2024 YR4 with a chance of hitting the moon in 2032.