NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...

After Hera speeds past Mars, it's onward to Didymos and its now -misshapen companion Dimorphos (thanks to the collision), ...

The shape of the asteroid Dimorphos was changed when NASA's DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into it in 2022 as part of a test of humanity's planetary defense capabilities. DART, the Double ...

The DART mission was designed to test how slamming a spacecraft into the side of an asteroid would impact how it travels through space, and therefore if doing so could successfully deflect a space ...

In 2022, NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid called ... The mission, called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), was designed as a kind of pilot program for deflecting ...

In 2022, the DART spacecraft successfully plunged into a space rock dubbed Dimorphos. The test showed that it is possible to redirect an asteroid, potentially saving Earth from a future cataclysm ...

By Laura Baisas | Published Mar 20, 2024 10:00 AM EDT The asteroid Dimorphos was captured by NASA’s DART mission just two seconds before the spacecraft struck its surface on September 26 ...

During the DART mission, NASA used an uncrewed spacecraft to slam into Dimorphos at 14,000 miles per hour to see if it was possible to push a space rock off its orbit. READ MORE: NASA's DART ...

In September, 2022, NASA deliberately flew the 1,200-pound DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos. The mission successfully demonstrated the ability to change the course of an asteroid ...

NASA's experimental laser communication system, riding along with the Psyche spacecraft, has transmitted Psyche data from ...