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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...
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Asteroid Struck by a Spacecraft Might Be 'Healing' as Its Surface Reforms
Dimorphos was the chosen target – a small asteroid in a mutual orbit with a larger binary companion called Didymos.
It’s not sci-fi: Americans support asteroid defense spending
Planetary defense is a global imperative, of course, but for the time being, NASA — and, by extension, the United States — is ...
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From new commercial Moon landers to asteroid investigations, expect a slate of exciting space missions in 2025
NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...
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Asteroid-Seeking Spacecraft Snaps Poignant Views Of Earth
ESA's Hera spacecraft as it would look in space. Dimorphos is a small moonlet that orbits the bigger asteroid Didymos. In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos to see if it could change ...
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See ESA Hera Spacecraft's Trajectory To The Didymos Asteroid System
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Plane-Sized Asteroid Races Toward Earth At 22,000 Km Per Hour; How Close Will It Get?
This asteroid, which measures between 65 to 147 feet in diameter, will zoom past our planet at a distance of 18 lakh kilometres. Moving at a brisk pace of 22,400 kilometres per hour, its closest ...
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Defending the Earth from cataclysmic space rocks
DART is targeting the asteroid Didymos and its moon Dimorphos to test the impactor technique in an easily measurable way. The spacecraft will smash its 550 kilograms into Dimorphos at 24,000 km/h ...
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DART: Double Asteroid Redirection Test
The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...