In How to Kill an Asteroid, Robin George Andrews looks at the successes and shortcomings of planetary defense.

An undated handout picture made available by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shows an illustration of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to ...

That’s why we need to have a robust plan, he says. In 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission successfully with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, an object just 530 ft. in diameter ...

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission has been launched to test the use of solar-powered electric propulsion to protect Earth from incoming asteroids. The DART craft ...

The Hera mission, which is run by the European Space Agency, is a follow-on from Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) project. Dimorphos is a small moon 160m-wide that orbits an ...

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...

ever since NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) managed to impact it on September 27. New images from the NASA Hubble Space Telescope show that Dimorphos has developed a twin tail ...

The most famous and successful of them was Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART, a $330 million mission that in 2022 collided with Dimorphos, a moon around the asteroid Didymos.

NASA’s planetary defense test, dubbed “Double Asteroid Redirection Test,” or DART, was geared toward discovering whether officials on Earth could successfully derail a dangerous asteroid ...