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 ...
BGR

What Does NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office Do?

In 2016, NASA consolidated several programs into the Planetary Defense Coordination Office (PDCO), designed to work with other federal agencies, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The ...
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Earth's first planetary defense

Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...
AOL

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin, NASA reveal mission plans for blasting city-killing asteroids away from Earth

Blue Origin has unveiled a plan to stop asteroids and other threats from beyond. Rock-a-bye, baby. With scientists warning that Earth could be susceptible to thousands of undetected asteroids, Jeff ...
Gizmodo

NASA’s DART Mission Did More Than Just Nudge an Asteroid, Study Says

In September 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft rammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at nearly 15,000 miles per hour (24,000 kilometers per hour). The mission aimed to test whether NASA could one day ...
Aviation Week

NASA’s DART Mission Still Advancing Earth Planetary Defense

HOUSTON—The NASA-led Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission continues to furnish data supporting work on strategies for diverting the course of large asteroids that could impact Earth, a ...
Science Friday

If An Asteroid Were Headed For Earth, Would We Be Ready?

You might remember news reporting from earlier this year that a 180-foot asteroid had about a 3% chance of hitting Earth in 2032. And if it did, it would unleash energy equivalent to hundreds of ...