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It might not look like much, but here is the first monumental image from the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART). Earlier this month, a circular door covering the aperture of its DRACO telescopic camera was opened, allowing the camera to take

NASAs Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on November 24, 2021.

NASAs Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) has returned its first set of images from its DRACO camera, showing M38 and more.

The capture of the first image and successful sendoff to Earth is a major milestone for the spacecraft, indicating the nominal health of the mission.

The first spacecraft purposefully built to have a rather violent meeting with an asteroid just sent back some images from 2 million miles (3.2 million km) away. Called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or just DART, the spacecraft has recently turned on its camera, showing us glimpses of its journey as it heads to the binary asteroid Didymos for its impact.

NASA's DART mission will test a technology that someday could protect the Earth from a killer asteroid.

NASA launched DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test), the world’s first technology mission to defend Earth against asteroids or comets.

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, launched Wednesday at 1:21 a.m. EST on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first full-scale mission to test technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid or comet hazards, launched Wednesday at 1:21 a.m. EST on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Just one part of NASA’s larger planetary defense strategy, DART – built and managed by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland – will impact a know...

NASA's DART mission is underway, launching atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 and aiming to answer one of the biggest questions in science - and sci-fi movies: can we avoid