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The ESA’s autonomous Hera mission is going through preflight testing before it has to navigate the real Didymos asteroid system. The ESA’s autonomous Hera mission is going through preflight testing ...

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How do you pick one asteroid out of thousands for a space mission? NASA made that tough choice with its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which aims to slam a spacecraft into the moonlet ...

NASA is two weeks away from intentionally crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid, and scientists believe the visuals sent back from the impact will be worth the wait. On Sept. 26, the Double Asteroid ...

An illustration depicting NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system. When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) ...

In 2022, NASA made history, deliberately smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter the object's orbit around its larger companion asteroid. We already knew that the Double ...

Didymos (left) and Dimorphos (right) as seen by the DART mission minutes before impact. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL Asteroid Didymos is spitting rocks out into space. Last fall, when NASA's DART ...