This Is the Last Thing a NASA Spacecraft Saw Before Hitting an Asteroid at 14,000 MPH
4 Oct 2022, 06:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA published the "last complete image of the asteroid Dimorphos, as seen by our Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) two seconds before impact."
Here’s the Didymos Asteroid, Doesn’t Know Humans Have Bad Things Planned for It
8 Sep 2022, 12:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's DART spacecraft captured its first images of the Dimorphos asteroid it'll smash into back in July, compiled pic just released by the space agency
525-Feet Asteroid Is Right Where It Should Be for Spacecraft to Slam Into It at 15K MPH
29 Aug 2022, 06:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / New telescope observations confirm the smaller Didymos asteroid will be at the calculated position for the DART impact set for September 26
NASA’s Bombing an Asteroid on September 26, We’re Promised No Threat to Earth
24 Aug 2022, 12:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) is expected to impact the smaller Didymos asteroid on September 26 at 7:14 p.m. EDT
CSI Robotic Detectives to Venture Into Space, See Effects of Spacecraft Hitting Asteroid
26 Feb 2022, 06:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Years after the DART spacecraft would have smashed into distant asteroid Didymos, ESA will send two CubeSats to witness the carnage, and more
NASA Shoots DART at Distant Didymos Asteroid, Impact in Less Than a Year
24 Nov 2021, 09:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is now on its way to the Didymos binary asteroid, should reach it in the fall of next year
SpaceX Set to Fire NASA’s Asteroid Deflecting Projectile on November 23
5 Oct 2021, 08:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says the launch date for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test was set for November 23 at 10:20 p.m. PST, a SpaceX Falcon 9 to carry it into orbit
The Solar System Keeps Throwing Rocks at Us. Next Year, We’ll Throw Something Back
22 Aug 2021, 08:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Come next fall, humans will know for sure if asteroid deflection is something that can be considered in the fight to defend our planet from space rocks
NASA Will Try to Deflect an Asteroid, Space Impact Coming Next Fall
17 Aug 2021, 11:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft "ready to complete its final system testing and reviews before shipping to the launch site."