A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful ...
Scientists are eager to examine the impact’s aftermath up close to know exactly how effective Dart was and what changes might ...
Two years ago, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a small asteroid millions of miles from Earth to test a technique that could ...
Europe's Hera probe successfully launched Monday on a mission to inspect the damage done by a NASA spacecraft that smashed ...
A spacecraft launched to study a small, harmless astroid hit by NASA two years ago to practice blasting asteroids that ...
The asteroid is called Dimorphos, and it resides 7 million miles from Earth in the Didymos asteroid system, which orbits the sun. This month, in another first-of-its-kind undertaking, the European ...
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) deliberately crashed into the pyramid-sized asteroid Dimorphos roughly 11 million kilometres from Earth.