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This illustration shows a near-Earth asteroid similar to asteroid 2020 SW, which will safely pass by Earth on Thursday, Sept. 24, 2020, traveling through space. Photo provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech

Science Jan 25

An asteroid is coming exceedingly close to Earth, but will miss

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

Science Oct 27

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passes above a portion of the planet called Nilosyrtis Mensae in this artist's concept illustration from December 10, 2003. Photo provided by Getty Images
2 NASA spacecraft detect biggest meteor strikes recorded on Mars

Scientists reported Thursday that last year's barrages sent seismic surface waves rippling thousands of miles across Mars, the first ever detected near the surface of another planet.

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

Science Oct 11

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system showed in this illustration handout. Photo by NASA/Johns Hopkins/Handout via REUTERS
WATCH: NASA says DART spacecraft successfully redirected asteroid

A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test.

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

Science Oct 04

Astronomers using the NSF’s NOIRLab’s SOAR telescope in Chile captured the vast plume of dust and debris blasted from the surface of the asteroid Dimorphos by NASA’s DART spacecraft when it impacted on 26 September 2022. In this image, the more than 10,000 kilometer long dust trail — the ejecta that has been pushed away by the Sun’s radiation pressure, not unlike the tail of a comet — can be seen stretching from the center to the right-hand edge of the field of view. Photo provided by CTIO/NOIRLab/SOAR/NSF/AURA/T. Kareta (Lowell Observatory), M. Knight (US Naval Academy)
Photo shows asteroid’s 6,000 miles long debris trail after collision with NASA spacecraft

The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris. Astronomers captured the scene millions of miles away with a telescope in Chile.

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

Science Sep 26

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft prior to impact at the Didymos binary asteroid system showed in this illustration handout. Photo by NASA/Johns Hopkins/Handout via REUTERS
NASA Dart spacecraft rams into an asteroid in defense test

Scientists say the impact should have carved out a crater and hurled streams of rocks and dirt into space. Most importantly, though, scientists are hoping the collision altered the asteroid's orbit.

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

Sep 26

WATCH: NASA’s DART spacecraft crashes into an asteroid to test defense system

By Svetla Ben-Itzhak, The Conversation

Crashing the 1,340-pound DART probe into the small moonlet orbiting the asteroid Didymos should redirect its trajectory – and could be a model for how to save Earth in the future.

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Nov 24

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Can asteroids be veered away from Earth? New NASA spacecraft aims to find out

By Miles O'Brien, Ryan Connelly Holmes

NASA has launched a satellite into orbit on a mission to smash itself into an asteroid, in a test to see whether it is possible to knock a speeding space rock off course — if one were on a collision…

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Nov 24

NASA launches spacecraft to test asteroid defense plan

By John Antczak, Associated Press

The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in a $330 million project with echoes of the Bruce Willis movie “Armageddon.”…

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Oct 14

NASA set to launch a robot to explore asteroids near Jupiter

By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press

A plaque attached to the spacecraft includes lines from songs the Beatles wrote, along with quotes from other luminaries. From a John Lennon single: We all shine on . . . like the moon and the stars and the sun.

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Nov 27

Japan spacecraft carrying asteroid soil samples nears home

By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press

A Japanese spacecraft is nearing Earth after a yearlong journey home from a distant asteroid with soil samples and data that could provide clues to the origins of the solar system.

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