NASA’s DART spacecraft (illustrated) just crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on purpose in the world’s first test of a strategy for planetary defense. Johns Hopkins APL/NASA.

The 1,260-pound Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, collided with the estimated 11-billion-pound, 520-foot-long asteroid Dimorphos at 14,000 mph about 7 million miles from Earth.

The DART mission — humanity’s first test of planetary defense — successfully slammed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos.; The goal was to redirect Dimorphos closer to Didymos, which it ...

DART's view of Dimorphos less than two minutes before impact on Sept. 26, 2022. (Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL) The golf cart-sized DART spacecraft slammed into Dimorphos at 7:14 p.m. EDT (2314 GMT ...

The last photo Earth received from the DART spacecraft on Sept. 26, 2022. (Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL) The images closely resemble photographs taken by Japan's Hayabusa2 mission at the asteroid ...

NASA's DART mission will crash into Dimorphos, a small asteroid 6.8 million miles away, to test our ability to deflect space rocks from Earth.

NASA's DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on Monday in the world's first test of a planetary defense system, designed to prevent a potential doomsday ...

DART photos reveal geology, age of asteroids The photos and data were collected from a spacecraft that crashed into Dimorphos on Sept. 26, 2022, as part of NASA's inaugural Double Asteroid ...

The DART spacecraft, launched in November, navigated to its target using new technology developed by Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, the spacecraft builder and mission manager.

On Monday, the DART spacecraft autonomously navigated toward and collided with Dimorphos when the rock was about 7 million miles from Earth -- its closest point to our blue planet.

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is set to slam into an asteroid on Monday (Sept. 26), in the first ever test of humanity's ability to deflect life-threatening space rocks ...

The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, is set to intentionally collide with an asteroid on Monday. The goal is to test the technology that could be needed for planetary defense.