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 ...
New Scientist

NASA changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun for the first time

Humanity has shifted an asteroid’s orbit around the sun for the first time. This was achieved by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission in 2022, but the effect has only now been ...
THE WEEK

How NASA shifted an asteroid’s orbit

NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to change the asteroid’s trajectory in 2022. Now, scientific observations have shown that the mission had more far-reaching effects than ...
Mashable

NASA demonstrates humanity may be able to stop an Earth-bound asteroid

A camera on NASA's DART spacecraft captures Dimorphos, left, and Didymos as it approaches for a direct hit of the smaller of the two, Dimorphos, in September 2022. Credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins APL A ...
Men's Journal

NASA Issues Major Update on 2032 Path of ‘City Killer’ Asteroid

There were concerns that Asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon or Earth. Asteroid-2024-YR4 NASA confirms asteroid 2024 YR4 will safely miss both Earth and the moon in 2032. Webb telescope enabled ...

NASA tracking bus-size asteroid approaching Earth on Friday

The 27-feet space rock is zooming past Earth at a whopping 45,522 mph.
Space.com

NASA's asteroid-smashing DART spacecraft hit so hard, it changed its target space rocks' orbit around the sun

"Over time, such a small change in an asteroid's motion can make the difference between a hazardous object hitting or missing our planet." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

NASA Tracks Asteroid Set To Make ‘Very Rare’ Closest Approach to Earth

NASA says of Apophis passing by that it is likely "an event like this has not happened at any time in recorded human history." ...