space NASA's Asteroid Test Could Lead to Future Collisions with Mars The DART mission, originally intended to alter the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos as a test for planetary defense, successfully modified its trajectory but also dislodged several large boulders.
space Hubble Space Telescope Captures Aftermath of NASA's DART Asteroid Impact The newly released movie begins roughly 1.3 hours before the DART impact, then shows the system of two asteroids two hours after the event, with debris moving at speeds fast enough to overcome the gravitational pull of the asteroid system.
space NASA's DART Spacecraft Successfully Changed the Orbit of an Asteroid The goal of DART was to change the orbit of Dimorphos around the larger asteroid by at least 73 seconds, although scientists had hoped the effect would be more like 10 minutes. This minimum benchmark has been exceeded by more than 25 times.
space NASA's DART Spacecraft Successfully Crashed Into an Asteroid in a Planetary Defense Test As part of the mission, NASA was investigating whether it was possible to alter the trajectory of a celestial body by hitting it with a space probe. This was humanity's first attempt to change the celestial body's trajectory.
