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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 ...
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. NASA's Hubble ...
The asteroid, around 100 feet in diameter, is speeding toward our planet at about 22,000 miles per hour, according to NASA.
No, this is not the plot line of a Hollywood blockbuster starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. NASA just deliberately slammed a spacecraft, going 13,421 miles per hour, into an asteroid 6.8 million ...
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It May Be Safe to Nuke an Earthbound Asteroid After All, Simulation Suggests
Could humanity nuke an incoming asteroid to deflect it and save the Earth, disaster-movie style? A unique new impact ...
The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.
Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...
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