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Nasa DART mission - as it happened: Nasa successfully smashes spacecraft into asteroid in first...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNasa‘s asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft successfully slammed into its target on Monday, 10 months...
What size asteroid would cause an extinction event - and how Nasa has a plan to protect us
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAs Nasa gears up for its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) mission on Monday, University of...
Scientists Say They've Found The Largest Asteroid Impact Crater Hiding In Plain Sight
Women's Health via Yahoo News· 8 months agoLargest-Ever Asteroid Impact Might be in AustraliaMichael Godek - Getty Images Researchers believe...
An asteroid will hit Earth at some point. What can we do about it?
Space via Yahoo News· 3 months agoAny day now, it could happen: We could detect an asteroid on an Earth-crossing trajectory. It might...
Study shows dinosaurs were 'struck down in their prime' by asteroid
Reuters via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBut were the dinosaurs already on the way out, with diversification faltering and rates of evolution...
'Planet killer' asteroids are hiding in the sun's glare. Can we stop them in time?
Live Science via Yahoo News· 6 months agoIn the glare of the sun, an unknown number of near-Earth asteroids move on unseen orbits. A new...
Scarlett Johansson Talks Writers Strike at ‘Asteroid City’ Premiere: What Happens ‘Will Forever...
Variety via AOL· 11 months agoAt Tuesday’s New York’s premiere of Wes Anderson’s “Asteroid City,” the star-studded cast had plenty...
DART mission: How NASA hit the bullseye
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe Double Asteroid Redirection Test, aimed at changing an asteroid's path as a method of protecting Earth from asteroid strikes, succeeded at striking a...
NASA's OSIRIS mission delivered asteroid samples to Earth
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contacts the asteroid Bennu with the Touch-And-Go Sample Arm Mechanism, or...
EXPLAINER: Why a NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIn the first-of-its kind, save-the-world experiment, NASA is about to clobber a small, harmless...