NASA crashes DART spacecraft into asteroid in world's 1st planetary defense test | Wow! Telescopes spot DART asteroid impact in deep space (videos) | NASA rolls Artemis 1 moon rocket off the launch pad to shelter from Hurricane Ian
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For the first time in history, a spacecraft from Earth has crashed into an asteroid to test a way to save our planet from extinction. NASA's DART probe slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos on Monday in the world's first planetary defense test.
Telescopes here on Earth captured the DART asteroid probe's spectacular deep-space death. Observations by the Hawaii-based Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System, for example, show the Didymos system brightening considerably at the moment of impact. And just afterward, a massive shell of ejected material blasts away from the battered Dimorphos.
The move will keep Artemis 1 safe from Hurricane Ian, should the storm slam Florida's Atlantic coast. But it means the Artemis 1 moon mission won't fly anytime soon. Here's the latest.
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Italian astronomer Gianluca Masi couldn't contain his excitement at the sight as he shared the observations in a livestream via the Virtual Telescope project. A small, dim dot that marked the Didymos-Dimorphos binary asteroid, at that time some 7 million miles (11 million kilometers) from Earth, began rapidly brightening.
(NASA, ESA, and P. Crowther (University of Sheffield))
Blue stars are by far the biggest and brightest stars in the galaxy. To the naked eye, the stars in the night sky all look very similar to each other, the main difference between them being that some are brighter than others. But if you look more carefully, you'll see that stars come in different colors.
It's rare for spacecraft mission personnel to cheer at the words "loss of signal," but tonight, that's exactly what happened when NASA's DART crashed into an asteroid Monday night.
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has snapped a stunning image of a snow-circled hydrothermal lake atop the real-life "Mount Doom" in New Zealand.
A Falcon 9 rocket launched 52 Starlink spacecraft from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Saturday at 7:32 p.m. EDT (2332 GMT). Due to clear conditions across the coastline, it was visible at least as far north as Long Island.
The Delta IV Heavy's final West Coast launch saw the rocket place a classified satellite into an unknown orbit on behalf of the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. See how it happened in these stunning photos.
Something in space shuttle history needs changing. Or so that seems to be case in the second episode of "Quantum Leap" airing Monday (Sept. 26) on NBC. Titled "Atlantis," the episode finds physicist Ben Song (Raymond Lee) headed into orbit aboard the space shuttle Atlantis in 1998(opens in new tab).
