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NASA Punched an Asteroid in 2022. Another Probe Is Now on Its Way to the Wreckage

Image captured by Italy's LICIACube just minutes after NASA's DART mission intentionally collided with asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, 2022. NASA/ASA In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed into ...
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NASA smacked an asteroid in 2022. Now, a spacecraft is on the way for part 2.

Remember when NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022? Today, a different probe was successfully launched to get a close-up look at the aftermath of the collision. About the ...
New Scientist

Hera mission set to revisit asteroid after NASA's redirection test

Two years after a NASA spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos, another mission to map the space rock is about to launch. The data it collects will refine Earth’s planetary defences against ...
Live Science

'Fireball' meteor discovered hours before exploding above Niagara Falls was the smallest asteroid ever seen

An asteroid that fell to Earth in 2022 and exploded in a stunning green fireball above Canada was the smallest space rock ever properly measured, a new study suggests. The diminutive asteroid, which ...