Asteroid Dimorphos

Hollywood has depicted the apocalypse, with movies such as Deep Impact, Armageddon, and Don't Look Up exploring the hypothetical scenarios of global annihilation through the collision of asteroids with Earth. NASA has already provided an…

Potentially hazardous asteroids can pose a risk for planet Earth at any time. In order to avoid any kind of a dangerous situation and to deflect the direction of any asteroid nearing Earth, NASA had on September 26, 2022 launched Double…

NASA gives confirmation that the DART mission was successful and the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos has been altered. Earth may just avoid another dinosaur-extinction event. On September 26, NASA did the unthinkable. For the first time…

NASA on Tuesday celebrated exceeding expectations during a mission to deflect a distant asteroid, in a sci-fi like test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth.The fridge-sized Double…

NASA has confirmed that its first attempt at planetary defense against a destructive asteroid has miraculously succeeded. NASA's first attempt at planetary defense against potentially world-destroying asteroids was a miraculous…

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft intentionally crashed into Asteroid Dimorphos. An asteroid which was deliberately smashed by NASA's DART spacecraft has left a trail of debris stretching thousands of…