Didymos

Incoming! NASA's DART mission will deliberately smash into an asteroid in 2022

DART will knock into one of the smaller 'moonlets' in a near-Earth asteroid system called Didymos.

NASA plans to save Earth by knocking asteroid off its orbit

Aiming to show how to protect Earth from a future killer asteroid strike, NASA plans to crash a refrigerator-sized spacecraft at a speed about nine times faster than a bullet into a space rock, forcing it to change its orbit

NASA starts designing the DART mission to test the use of spacecraft to deflect hazardous asteroids

The DART mission will test the viability of using a spacecraft to deflect an asteroid that can strike Earth.