NASA Planetary Defense

DART, NASA and asteroid

NASA's DART planetary defense mission reveals asteroids hurling 'cosmic snowballs' at each other

New images from NASA's DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.

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NASA confirms its DART mission changed an asteroid’s orbit, offering hope for this planetary defense technique

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NASA's DART mission didn't just change the orbit of asteroid it hit

NASA’s DART Impact Actually Changed an Asteroid System’s Orbit Around the Sun

NASA’s DART mission proved that a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid system in space, offering a real test of planetary defense ...

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What NASA’s planetary defense coordination office actually does

NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination Office sounds like something out of a disaster movie, but its work is far more methodical than cinematic. Instead of scrambling at the last minute, the ...

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New observations show the aftermath of a spacecraft intentionally colliding with an asteroid

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.

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