This illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Never-Before-Seen…
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Hubble captures the debris from the DART impact being swept back into a comet-like tail by the pressure of sunlight on the tiny dust particles.…
Asteroids have the potential to collide with the Earth and cause catastrophic damage. While most asteroids burn up in the atmosphere before they reach the…
Astronomers using the SOAR telescope in Chile captured the vast plume of dust and debris blasted from the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos by NASA’s…
These images, Hubble on left and Webb on the right, show observations of the Didymos-Dimorphos system several hours after NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART)…
Image captured by the Italian Space Agency’s LICIACube a few minutes after the intentional collision of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission with its…
NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with the smaller body of the Didymos binary asteroid system on September 26, 2022. This artist’s animation illustrates the impact. ESA’s…
The final images leading up to the DART spacecraft’s intentional collision with asteroid Dimorphos. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and…
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will impact its target asteroid Dimorphos on September 26 at 7:14 p.m. EDT (4:14 p.m. PDT). Credit: NASA Today,…
DART Animation. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal…
This illustration depicts NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben Trying…
NASA’s DART spacecraft is due to collide with the smaller body of the Didymos binary asteroid system in September 2022. Credit: ESA–ScienceOffice.org NASAEstablished in 1958,…
DART Animation. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL DART Team Confirms Orbit of Targeted Asteroid Using some of the world’s most powerful telescopes, the DART investigation team…
The DART spacecraft’s collision with its target may leave the asteroid unrecognizable, rather than just a minor crater. University of Bern researchers simulate planetary defense.…
NASA’s DART spacecraft is due to collide with the smaller body of the Didymos binary asteroid system in October 2022. ESA’s Hera mission will survey…
Illustration of the DART spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL Just two weeks after launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, NASAEstablished in 1958, the…
ESA’s 4.5 m-diameter antenna located in Western Australia. Credit: D. Hamilton When NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent…
[embedded content] Although the chance of an asteroid impacting Earth is small, even a relatively small asteroid of about 500 feet (about 150 meters) across…
Illustration of the DART spacecraft with the Roll Out Solar Arrays (ROSA) extended. Each of the two ROSA arrays in 8.6 meters by 2.3 meters.…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Nov. 23, 2021, carrying NASA’s…