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When the Apollo 11 landing module detached and sent Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin hurtling toward the surface of the moon, Michael Collins began a journey of his own. For the next 21 hours,...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will be honored with the 2024 Michael Collins Trophy for Current Achievement. For its work developing and

This Hubble Space Telescope image of the asteroid Dimorphos was taken on December 19, 2022, nearly four months after the asteroid was hit by NASA's DART

If only the dinosaurs had known how vulnerable their nemesis was.

NASA’s Asteroid-Blasting Spacecraft DART Beams Back Its First Pictures from Space - Industry Tap

NASAs DART mission, an attempt to discover if a spacecraft can nudge an asteroid off a collision course with Earth, has been described as a smashing success.

Scientists shared the latest results from the DART mission this week, six months after its impact into the asteroid Dimorphos.

The mission, focused on the Didymos-Dimorphos binary asteroid system, proved that an asteroid’s orbit can be altered by kinetic impactor technology. Rocks from space have walloped Earth for eons, and it’s only a matter of time until our planet lands yet again in the crosshairs of a very large asteroid. But unlike other forms of…

This 10-cm box will make history as the smallest radar instrument to be flown in space, highlights the European Space Agency, and it will be the first radar to probe the interior of an asteroid.

Smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid isnt NASAs usual approach to planetary science, but DARTs impact was certainly an opportunity nonetheless.