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When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...
In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid.
Scientists found that NASA's DART spacecraft ejected a massive barrage of boulders when it bashed into asteroid Dimorphos in ...
There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...
NASA issued a statement about a “city-killer” asteroid (2024 YR4) that they said had a 1.2% chance of slamming into Earth on ...
In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...
YR4 won’t hit Earth, but a 4% chance remains for a lunar impact. ESA's upcoming NEOMIR telescope could revolutionize early ...
Save the world and get fabulously wealthy doing so. Someone really should make a movie out of that scenario, before it ...
It ultimately was successful, with NASA correctly predicting that it is possible to redirect celestial objects. The asteroid known as Dimorphos was approximately the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza, ...
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Three of these asteroids would have over one million times the energy of Hiroshima if they were to strike Earth’s surface and ...