NASA's DART Spacecraft Smashes Into an Asteroid—on Pu

The mission was designed to test whether a probe could knock a hazardous space rock away from a crash course with Earth.

Related Keywords

New Horizons , Arizona , United States , Chile , New Mexico , Carolyn Ernst , Nancy Chabot , Johns Hopkins University , Propulsion Laboratory , Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory , Space Network , European Space Agency , Double Asteroid Redirection Test , Applied Physics Laboratory , Asteroid Impact , Deflection Assessment , European Space , Deep Space Network , Nasa , Asteroids , Comets , Space , Spacecraft , Astronomy , Planetary Science ,