The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
A camera on NASA's DART spacecraft captures Dimorphos, left, and Didymos as it approaches for a direct hit of the smaller of the two, Dimorphos, in September 2022. Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins APL A ...
In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. The objective was to assess whether humanity could protect Earth from cosmic threats ...