The purpose of that mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), was to see whether an "impactor," or a heavy, fast craft, could deflect a dangerous asteroid from a potential collision ...
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 ...
NASA’s asteroid impact changed Dimorphos’s orbit, but another strange shift followed. Scientists are still searching for ...