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NASA to Test DART System This Week
The experimental asteroid-buster will have its first test flight on Tuesday. Earlier this year, NASA concocted a hypothesis in response...
The experimental asteroid-buster will have its first test flight on Tuesday. Earlier this year, NASA concocted a hypothesis in response...
The roaming space rock has a 1 in 1,750 chance of hitting the Earth. Asteroids pass by the Earth more...
Turns out we’d need a pretty big advance notice. In just about every action disaster movie of the late 90s,...
Punch a space rock with a rocket. It’s beautiful in its simplicity. Despite the frequency at which we see gigantic,...
This rock is literally worth more than all the money in the world. The majority of asteroids hurtling about the...
That’s one aggressive space rock. Asteroids float randomly past our planet all the time, but very rarely do they actually...
When science hits a roadblock, it’s as good a time as any to start blowing things up. Japanese space...
Ah, Pallas Athena. I see what they did there. NASA is apparently thinking of sending a tiny satellite to...
After a two-year journey, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe has successfully landed on the asteroid known as Bennu. The revelation was proudly...
Back in 2015, an asteroid flew across the night sky. Now, this wouldn’t usually be big news, but as it...