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DART asteroid impact aftermath caught on Webb and Hubble space telescopes

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

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 ...
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NASA's asteroid target practice may not have been the success we thought

The asteroid Dimorphos, left, is shown with its larger companion Didymos in space as it blasts dust and boulders in a lopsided debris cone following the NASA DART mission on Sept. 26, 2022. Credit: ...
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DART spacecraft's asteroid impact informs new planetary defense strategy

When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first experiment. The message reached NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, ...
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NASA launching mission to deflect an asteroid

NASA is scheduled to launch a "planetary defense-driven test" late Tuesday night. The goal of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is to adjust the speed and path of an asteroid by using ...