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Full impact of NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission revealed in new studies

NASA's real-life Armageddon mission to move an asteroid off course was even more of a smashing success than early results indicated.

ABC News · Mar 1, 2023

From ChatGPT to diverting asteroids: These scientific breakthroughs give us hope for 2023

‘Revolutions’ in nuclear fusion and artificial intelligence offer cause for optimism in the new year, writes Bevan Hurley

The Independent UK · Dec 31, 2022

A tiny space probe could reveal the aftermath of our first asteroid defense test

After DART collided with Dimorphos, scientists want to understand how the asteroid changed. They'll send the smallest radar to space to glean more information beneath Dimorphos' surface.

Inverse · Nov 13, 2022

NASA confirms humans changed the motion of a celestial object for the first time

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, better known as DART, successfully shifted the orbit of an asteroid known as Dimorphos — a huge victory for local scientists and engineers whose work was involved in the mission, NASA officials announced Tuesday.

Tribune News Service · Oct 12, 2022

NASA successfully shifted an asteroid's orbit – DART spacecraft crashed into and moved Dimorphos

NASA recently crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in an attempt to push the rocky traveler off its trajectory. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test – or DART – was meant to test one potential strategy for preventing an asteroid from colliding with Earth. The collision occurred on Sept. 27, 2022,…

The Conversation · Oct 11, 2022

NASA asteroid crash a smashing success

The mission sets a precedent as to how humanity might deflect a deadly Earth-bound asteroid in the future

Salon · Oct 11, 2022

NASA confirms DART asteroid defense mission was a success in planetary first

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved an asteroid, space agency officials confirmed on Tuesday, October 11.

Inverse · Oct 11, 2022

‘Watershed moment for humanity’: Nasa hails success of asteroid mission that was test to save planet

Nasa says its spacecraft managed to nudge the asteroid out of its natural orbit

Evening Standard · Oct 11, 2022

Asteroid hit by Nasa leaves thousands of miles of dust and debris

A plume of dust and debris blasted from the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos by NASA's DART spacecraft

Evening Standard · Oct 5, 2022

Look! DART's asteroid target has a debris tail six thousand miles long

The long trail of debris will make it easier for astronomers to study the material DART flung into space when it slammed into Dimorphos.

Inverse · Oct 4, 2022