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Notorious asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t crash into the moon after all

Earthlings aren't the only ones safe from a city-wrecking-size asteroid. Future lunar inhabitants won't have to worry about a strike in 2032 either ...

Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

NASA demonstrates humanity may be able to stop an Earth-bound asteroid

Here's what scientists have now learned about the DART mission.

55 years ago, The Andromeda Strain put the science in science fiction

Robert Wise's 1971 sci-fi thriller raises pertinent questions about human fragility.
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NASA slams asteroid off course in stunning Earth defense trial

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, has delivered results that exceeded every benchmark the agency set for its first attempt to change an asteroid’s trajectory. On September 26, ...
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Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An asteroid that NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different route around the sun, findings that could help divert a future incoming ...