NASA’s DART Mission Still Advancing Earth Planetary Defense

Mark Carreau March 06, 2026
DART
Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—The NASA-led Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission continues to furnish data supporting work on strategies for diverting the course of large asteroids that could impact Earth, a paper in the journal Science Advances says. Launched on Nov. 24, 2021, DART deliberately crashed into...
Mark Carreau

Mark is based in Houston, where he has written on aerospace for more than 25 years. While at the Houston Chronicle, he was recognized by the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement Foundation in 2006 for his professional contributions to the public understanding of America's space program through news reporting.

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