‘A watershed moment for planetary defense and … humanity’ — NASA administrator Bill Nelson confirms DART successfully knocked an asteroid off course. » Sign up for our newsletter KnowThis to get the biggest stories of the day delivered straight to your inbox: ...

#shorts #2022 #dart #nasa #dimorphos #asteroid #firstimage NOIRLab-operated SOAR telescope reveals immense glimmering trail of debris from collision with asteroid Dimorphos. Two days after DART’s impact, astronomers Teddy Kareta (Lowell Observatory) and Matthew Knight (US Naval Academy) used ...

Bullseye! NASA’s DART Mission Impacts Asteroid Target in World First After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration, successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday — the agency’s first attempt ...