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 ...

Watch how NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh

NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) wide and the binary asteroid is 0.15 ...
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Spacecraft launches to deflect an asteroid in planetary defense mission

The world’s first full-scale planetary defense test is in motion. The mission is called DART and what scientists learn from it could save humankind from a future catastrophic event. Nancy Chabot is a ...
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See ESA Hera Spacecraft's Trajectory To The Didymos Asteroid System

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency 26,463 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you ...
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DART NASA: Spacecraft successfully slams into an asteroid

CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...
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Professor spots binary asteroid

BLOOMSBURG — Michael Shepard, professor of geography and geosciences at Bloomsburg University, discovered a binary asteroid recently while working at the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Puerto ...