Science Oct 07 Spacecraft on its way to investigate asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press
Science Oct 16 Watch 5:29 Neil deGrasse Tyson explains NASA’s asteroid-shifting DART mission NASA's recent Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, known as DART, successfully altered the orbit of a planetary object for the first time ever. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, and author of the new book "Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization," joins…
Science Oct 11 WATCH: NASA says DART spacecraft successfully redirected asteroid A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test. By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press
Science Oct 04 Photo shows asteroid’s 6,000 miles long debris trail after collision with NASA spacecraft The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris. Astronomers captured the scene millions of miles away with a telescope in Chile. By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press
Science Sep 26 NASA Dart spacecraft rams into an asteroid in defense test Scientists say the impact should have carved out a crater and hurled streams of rocks and dirt into space. Most importantly, though, scientists are hoping the collision altered the asteroid's orbit. By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press
Sep 26 Watch 11:38 NASA crashes spacecraft into asteroid in attempt to knock it off course By Miles O'Brien, William Brangham, Courtney Norris NASA is trying an experiment to answer a question that’s straight out of science fiction. What could we do if a large object was hurtling through space on a collision course with Earth? Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien joined William Brangham… Continue watching
Sep 26 WATCH: NASA’s DART spacecraft crashes into an asteroid to test defense system By Svetla Ben-Itzhak, The Conversation Crashing the 1,340-pound DART probe into the small moonlet orbiting the asteroid Didymos should redirect its trajectory – and could be a model for how to save Earth in the future. Continue reading
Nov 24 Watch 5:26 Can asteroids be veered away from Earth? New NASA spacecraft aims to find out By Miles O'Brien, Ryan Connelly Holmes NASA has launched a satellite into orbit on a mission to smash itself into an asteroid, in a test to see whether it is possible to knock a speeding space rock off course — if one were on a collision… Continue watching
Nov 24 NASA launches spacecraft to test asteroid defense plan By John Antczak, Associated Press The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in a $330 million project with echoes of the Bruce Willis movie “Armageddon.”… Continue reading