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China is planning to send a mission to hit an asteroid and change its orbit with a spacecraft to lower the risk of it ...
When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first ...
To avoid this scenario, Makadia's team plotted the best spots on an asteroid's surface to avoid the keyhole. Their technique ...
A top Chinese space researcher revealed plans for a mission to defend Earth from dangerous asteroids, which, if successful, would make China only the second nation after the US to alter an asteroid’s ...
A spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch. The DART mission, or NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will lift off at 10:20 p.m. PT on November 23 aboard a ...
An asteroid that struck Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago left a long trail of destruction in its wake, new research ...
ATHENS, Ga. – A meteorite that streaked across the sky of the Southeast and ended up crashing into a Georgia home has now been studied by researchers at the University of Georgia. The space debris, ...