When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels strike and pulverize two large boulders on the target, debris from ...

When the team compared this outcome to that of NASA’s Deep Impact (EPOXI) mission, which punched a probe into a comet to study its interior structure, the distribution of the debris made more sense.

Astronomy Solar System Asteroids NASA's asteroid-crash Earth defense tactic has a complication — DART ejected large boulders into space News By Keith Cooper published July 9, 2025 ...