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NASA's DART: Redirecting An Asteroid To Protect Earth

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
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DART NASA: Spacecraft successfully slams into an asteroid

CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...
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Inside NASA’s Wild Space Mission to Defend Earth Against a Planet-Killing Asteroid

But DART would be more challenging than any previous asteroid mission, and the stakes couldn’t be higher. “Planetary defense isn’t the highest priority thing that we do here at NASA on a day-to-day ...

NASA spots huge asteroid on potential crash path with the Moon — here’s what we know

NASA has confirmed that asteroid 2024 YR4, a space rock approximately the size of a 15-story building, might collide with the ...
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Asteroid Impact Aftermath Time-Lapse - NASA DART

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...
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Close-up views of NASA's DART impact to inform planetary defense

Photos taken by the Italian LICIACube, short for the LICIA CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids. These offer the closest, most detailed observations of NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) ...
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NASA asteroid: Agency tracking newly discovered space rock that has 'small chance' of hitting Earth

CHICAGO -- A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a "small chance" of colliding with Earth in 23 years, with a potential impact on Valentine's Day in 2046, ...
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An Asteroid Could Smash Into the Moon in 2032. Here’s Why We Should Destroy It

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a 4% chance of smashing into the Moon in about seven years. Astronomers are already working out ways to prevent a potential impact. Reading time 3 minutes Asteroid 2024 ...