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NASA’s DART mission shows how to smash an asteroid to save Earth

For the first time, humanity has proved it can deliberately shove a small world off course. NASA’s Double Asteroid ...
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NASA faces 1 in 2,700 killer asteroid threat. Here’s the stop plan

The asteroid Bennu carries a small but very real chance of slamming into Earth in the next few centuries, with one particular ...
WGHP

Why is a NASA spacecraft crashing into an asteroid?

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — In the ...
AOL

DART spacecraft's asteroid impact informs new planetary defense strategy

When engineers at a control center in Turin, Italy, sent a faint radio signal into space, they set off a world-first experiment. The message reached NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, ...
NBC Connecticut

An asteroid might be heading for the moon. Should we nuke it?

If an asteroid is on a collision course with the moon, what should humanity do? Try to nudge the space rock out of the way before it strikes? Obliterate it with a nuclear explosion? Such a cosmic ...
Newsweek

NASA Tracking Bus-Sized Asteroid Approaching Earth This Week

NASA is monitoring a bus-sized asteroid that’s soaring towards Earth at nearly 8,000 miles per hour, according to the space agency's Center for Near Earth Object Studies (CNEOS). Estimated to measure ...
Mashable

NASA's asteroid sample just revealed new clues to life's origins

NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-Rex mission brought home about a half-cup of crushed rocks and dirt from asteroid Bennu in 2023. Credit: NASA Goddard / University of Arizona illustration In one study, a ...