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NASA’s DART mission did far more than just bump an asteroid

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test did not simply knock a small space rock off course. The 2022 kinetic impact reshaped the moonlet Dimorphos, altered its orbit far beyond expectations, and even ...
Portland Mercury

Inside the Race for County Chair: Financial Woes, Homeless Services, and Capitulating to Trump

The race for chair of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners has begun in earnest. Last month, Commissioner Shannon Singleton became the first major contender to declare her candidacy for the ...
Morning Overview on MSN

NASA test smacked an asteroid off course and rewrote its solar orbit

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, did more than shove a small asteroid into a tighter loop around its ...
Aviation Week Network

Inside NASA’s X-59 Low-Boom Demonstrator

As the first major piloted NASA X-plane to fly in a generation and the first crewed, purpose-built U.S. high-speed research aircraft since the X-15 of the 1960s, the X-59 low-boom ...

NASA's DART test for planetary defense proved it can shift an asteroid's solar orbit

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.

NASA crashed a spacecraft into a space rock, accelerating two asteroids’ orbit around the sun

The NASA DART spacecraft shifted the orbits of two asteroids around the sun after intentionally crashing into one of them.