Tagged: planetary defense
The results of NASA’s ambitious DART planetary mission are in, and the results are very good indeed.
In a historic announcement on Tuesday, the space agency confirmed that for the first time, humanity has succeeded in changing the orbit of a planetary …
As we await news on whether NASA has been successful in changing the course of an asteroid by crashing a spacecraft into it, it’s emerged that the collision caused a huge debris trail around 6,000 miles (10,000 kilometers) long.
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Earlier this week NASA successfully crashed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid around seven million miles from Earth.
The mission was a test to see if the force of such an impact can alter the course of an asteroid’s flight. If it can — and we we’re …
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into a distant asteroid on Monday in a mission designed to see if the force of such an impact can shift a space rock’s direction of travel.
If it worked — and we may not find out for a c…
An international team of space researchers recently came together to test what might happen if Earth were threatened by a large asteroid strike. Results from the planetary defense exercise, which happened last year, have just recently been published an…