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This Hubble Space Telescope image of the asteroid Dimorphos was taken on December 19, 2022, nearly four months after the asteroid was impacted by NASA?s DART mission (Double Asteroid Redirection Test). Hubble?s sensitivity reveals a few dozen boulders knocked off the asteroid by the force of the collision. These are among the faintest objects Hubble has ever photographed inside the solar system. The free-flung boulders range in size from three feet to 22 feet across, based on Hubble photometry. They are drifting away from the asteroid at a little more than a half-mile per hour. The discovery yields invaluable insights into the behavior of a small asteroid when it is hit by a projectile for the purpose of altering its trajectory.

NASA's asteroid-smashing space debris spotted by Hubble telescope

20 July 2023

The Hubble Space Telescope has snapped the results of smashing a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphous

ASI?s LICIACube satellite acquired this image just before its closest approach to the Dimorphos asteroid, after the Double Asteroid Redirect Test, or DART mission, purposefully made impact on Sep. 26, 2022. Didymos, Dimorphos, and the plume coming off of Dimorphos after DART impact are clearly visible. Credits: ASI/NASA

NASA's asteroid redirection spacecraft was a smashing success in 2022

14 December 2022

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test aimed to change the orbit of the space rock Dimorphos, and it did so perfectly

NASA's DART mission successfully smashed into asteroid Dimorphos

27 September 2022

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft beamed back its final moments before colliding with the asteroid Dimorphos in an attempt to change its orbit, and the collision was captured by telescopes on Earth

Astronomers trace fireball in Earth's skies to space rock that made it

22 September 2022

In an effort to learn more about near-Earth asteroids, astronomers have used telescopic surveys to find an image of a space rock that produced a 0.4-kiloton fireball over the Pacific Ocean

NASA is ready to knock an asteroid off course with its DART spacecraft

20 September 2022

The Double Asteroid Redirection Test is preparing to crash into the asteroid Dimorphos in an attempt to change its orbit

Small asteroid hits Earth just hours after astronomers detect it

15 March 2022

A space rock that exploded in the atmosphere near Iceland was only the fifth asteroid that has been observed before an impact with Earth

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Don’t Look Up: Could we save Earth from a comet in just six months?

28 January 2022

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Only asteroids that hit a certain mineral trigger a mass extinction

25 May 2021

A comparison between geological records of asteroid impacts and mass extinctions suggests that only space rocks that strike an area rich in a certain mineral have a cataclysmic effect on life, no matter their size

Japanese space hoppers capture the sun moving across an asteroid sky

27 September 2018

Japanese landers on the asteroid Ryugu have sent back more stunning images and video of the alien landscape

That interstellar asteroid could be a shard of a shredded planet

8 December 2017

'Oumuamua, an oddly shaped asteroid from beyond our solar system, recently passed by. It may have formed when a planet was ripped into fragments by its star