Last September, NASA crashed the refrigerator-sized DART spacecraft into a small asteroid named Dimorphos at a speed of some 13,000 mph (2,100 km/h). The impact not only successfully changed the ...
When NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, it wasn't only a thrilling test of planetary defense. It was also a unique ...
The DART spacecraft, weighing about 1,200 pounds (544 kilograms), slammed head-on into the asteroid Dimorphos at 13,000 miles per hour (20,921 kilometers per hour) in an attempt to change the ...
Instead, the binary asteroid looks like a single object from here, with most of the light reflecting off the far larger ...
By Laura Baisas | Published Mar 21, 2023 10:00 AM EDT On September 26, 2022, eyes around the world were laser focused on NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). The car-sized spacecraft ...
Spectroscopic observations by the Very Large Telescope found no trace of water on the asteroid. Six months after NASA slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid at high speed, scientists are beginning ...
Incredible images of the swirling clouds of dust produced when NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft struck an asteroid have been revealed. The refrigerator-sized spacecraft ...
VLT's MUSE and FORS2 instruments captured changes in the asteroid's surface and debris cloud after the recent DART impact ...
This series of images, taken with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, shows the evolution of the cloud of debris that was ejected when NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with the ...
On 26 September 2022 the DART spacecraft collided with the asteroid Dimorphos in a controlled test of our asteroid deflection capabilities. The impact took place 11 million kilometres away from ...
Last fall, NASA’s DART spacecraft smashed into Dimorphos, a small asteroid some 7 million miles away, in an unprecedented attempt to change the orbit of a natural body in space. Now, two teams ...
A new study is revealing asteroid Didymos is spinning so quickly it is spewing all kinds of material into space.
