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DART will crash into Dimorphos later this month.

NASA's $330 million DART spacecraft has caught its first look at its target asteroid, Didymos, the double-asteroid system that is hurtling toward our planet. The mission's aim is to determine whether or not a spacecraft can be used to alter an asteroid's trajectory for planetary Defense.

Using its DRACO camera, DART has imaged the asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos.

Nasa is ready to crash its Dart mission into an asteroid to test a technology to deflect future asteroids headed towards Earth.

NASA has photographed the target asteroid it will collide into very soon in a demonstration of its DRACO camera thats onboard the doomed spacecraft.

NASAs DART spacecraft just beamed back the first image of its target, the moonlet Dimorphos, as well as the body it orbits, the asteroid Didymos. DART is a planetary defense test mission designed to

In one month, NASAs DART mission will impact the asteroid Dimorphos in an attempt to alter the celestial bodys trajectory. The mission is the worlds first planetary defense test — the mission is

You heard that right. NASA's DART will square off with an asteroid and aims to deflect it next month!

In a bid to figure out light scattering, NASAs asteroid-smashing mission did a bit of star-spotting while cruising to its destination.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has been steadily moving toward its September 26 encounter with the double asteroid Didymos