The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
On September 11, 2022, a critical step in planetary defense was taken as NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft, traveling over 5 million miles through space, performed the world’s ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) David Barnhart, University of Southern California (THE CONVERSATION) In a world first, ...
Photos taken by the Italian LICIACube, short for the LICIA CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids. These offer the closest, most detailed observations of NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) ...
In a mission that evokes images of the 1998 film "Armageddon," NASA next month will launch a spacecraft that it plans to deliberately crash into a near-Earth asteroid in the hopes of testing planetary ...