In 2022, NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid at 14,000 mph and changed its orbit by 32 minutes

Nasa's DART mission achieved a remarkable feat by changing the orbital path of an asteroid. The spacecraft made a high-speed ...

In 2022, NASA slammed a spacecraft into an asteroid moonlet at 14,000 mph; humanity’s first planetary-defense test shortened its orbit by about 32 minutes

In a historic planetary defense test, NASA's DART spacecraft impacted asteroid Dimorphos, successfully shortening its orbit ...
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NASA’s DART could be outmuscled by buried asteroid blast simulations

NASA proved in 2022 that a spacecraft can deliberately nudge an asteroid. Now a new simulation study argues that a much ...
Wall Street Journal

NASA's Stellar 2022: Spectacular Images From Historic Year in Space

NASA notched several milestones in 2022, from sending a megarocket toward the moon and deflecting an asteroid to capturing dramatic new images with the James Webb Space Telescope. Here’s a look at the ...
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Meet The Winners Of NASA’s 2022 Annual Space Apps Challenge

The NASA International Space Apps Challenge is growing, and the 2022 global event was the largest it has been since its inception in 2012. The challenge held Oct. 1 and 2, 2022, brought together a ...
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NASA launched this spacecraft to save a satellite. Now, it needs saving too

NASA launched the Swift Boost mission earlier this month to try and save one of its aging science observatories, but the ...
Forbes

In Photos: What 2022 Looked Like From Space

In this image from April 10, 2022, sunlight glints off the Atlantic Ocean in this photograph from taken by the crew of the International Space Station as it orbited 262 miles above. What did Earth ...