Live Science

Science history: DART, humanity’s first-ever asteroid deflection mission, punches a space rock in the face — Sept. 26, 2022

On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...
Gizmodo

NASA Punched an Asteroid in 2022. Another Probe Is Now on Its Way to the Wreckage

A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful kinetic impact test. Reading time: Reading time 3 minutes In September 2022, a ...
Houston Chronicle

NASA smacked an asteroid in 2022. Now, a spacecraft is on the way for part 2.

Upon Hera's arrival at Didymos and Dimorphos—which is slated for late 2026—the mission will perform its own "crash scene investigation," measuring the asteroid's mass and shifted orbit from up close, ...
Futurism

Scientists Say We Should Blow Up This Dangerous Asteroid Before It Gets Here

In 2022, NASA intentionally rammed a spacecraft into a small asteroid at 14,000 mph, knocking it off course. The goal was to demonstrate a proof of concept for keeping humanity safe from a space rock ...
Space.com

Europe's Hera probe to launch Oct. 7 to inspect asteroid NASA smacked in 2022

'We're very excited to go back and see what it looks like.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Europe's highly anticipated Hera ...