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Good news for the moon: Famous asteroid 2024 YR4 won't smash into it in 2032

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed our lunar companion is safe for now from an asteroid impact.

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 ...
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Scientists say you can finally relax a bit about doomsday asteroid impacts

NASA has concluded that asteroid 2024 YR4, the space rock that briefly alarmed planetary scientists after its discovery in ...

Asteroid-Smashing NASA Mission Sped Up Space Rocks’ Journey Around the Sun

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by ...

NASA's DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid's orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object

When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos' orbit around its ...

NASA's DART test for planetary defense proved it can shift an asteroid's solar orbit

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.

A big asteroid won't hit the moon. Many scientists had wished it would.

"The work continues." ...

You Can Probably Breathe Easier About Catastrophic Asteroid Collisions Now

New research shows a NASA asteroid-deflecting mission altered the path of a pair of space rocks.
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Space breakthrough as scientists change course of asteroid in bid to stop future doomsday

Scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) have changed the course of an asteroid in order to ...