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 ...
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, ...

DART asteroid impact seen from ground observatory and cubesat

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...
WRAL

Humans changed an asteroid's orbit around the Sun

In 2022, humanity deliberately smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. At the time, the goal sounded almost cinematic: test whether we could push a dangerous space rock off course if Earth were ever in ...
Rolling Out

NASA’s DART mission did far more than anyone expected

When NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in September 2022, the goal was straightforward. Test whether humanity could shove a space rock off course. The mission ...
Aviation Week

NASA’s DART Mission Still Advancing Earth Planetary Defense

HOUSTON—The NASA-led Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission continues to furnish data supporting work on strategies for diverting the course of large asteroids that could impact Earth, a ...