Asteroids
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Space
NASA begins DART mission to observe pushing away an asteroid, with an additional push from Aerojet
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launches NASA’s DART asteroid probe from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. (NASA via YouTube) A…
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Astronomers exhibit how utilizing the cloud can rev up the race to search out asteroids
This visualization shows trajectories of asteroids found using ADAM (in green). Earth’s orbit is represented by a blue arc closer…
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DART probe hits bull’s eye on an asteroid and strikes a blow for planetary protection
An image from NASA’s DART spacecraft shows the asteroid Didymos at lower right and Dimorphos, a moonlet that orbits Didymos,…
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