Above: A trail of debris scatters in the wake of asteroid moonlet Didymos after NASA’s DART spacecraft pummeled it surface. Credit: NASA/Hubble Space Telescope NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) in late September made history by using a spacecraft to...
Earthlings are better-equipped to detect asteroid threats thanks to the expansion of a NASA-funded program run by the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA). ATLAS, or Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System, has...
