On September 26th, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) collided with the asteroid Dimorphos, a moonlet that orbits the…
NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission was hailed a success when it collided with its target asteroid Dimorphos last…
It was a $325 million dollar project that was intentionally smashed to smithereens in the interest of one day, saving…
Like many of you, I loved Deep Impact and Armageddon. Great films, loads of action and of course, an asteroid…
Last September, NASA purposefully smashed a spacecraft into Dimorphos, a 160m-wide space rock orbiting a larger asteroid named Didymos. The…
The large impact craters dotting our planet are powerful reminders that asteroids and comets strike the Earth from time to…
Asteroid Didymos is spitting rocks out into space. Last fall, when NASA’s DART mission impacted Didymos’ moon Dimorphos in a…
NASA has released the preliminary analysis of the DART mission's impact (literally) on Dimorphos!
A team of satellite experts have designed a navigation system that could save Earth from a collision at the last…
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