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NASA Punched an Asteroid in 2022. Another Probe Is Now on Its Way to the Wreckage

A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful kinetic impact test.

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NASA smacked an asteroid in 2022. Now, a spacecraft is on the way for part 2.

Remember when NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022? Today, a different probe was successfully launched to get a close-up look at the aftermath of the collision. About the size of a small car,

Spacecraft launches to investigate asteroid threats to Earth

The European Space Agency will probe a harmless asteroid Nasa hit in 2022 as part of a "planetary defence test".

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The Dinosaur Age Ended With Not One, but Two Asteroid Impacts, Scientists Say

The Nadir crater is the impact site of the second asteroid, liquifying the rock and launching a tsunami into the Atlantic ocean.

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The dinosaur-killing asteroid turned ants into farmers

Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ancestors of today’s ants. In fact, the climatic upheaval that rocked Earth 66 million years ago may be the major reason some of the insect species learned to farm millions of years before humans even evolved.

Scientists Find Evidence It Wasn’t Just One Asteroid That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs

Scientists have discovered new evidence that it wasn't just one asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. There were two of them. It has

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A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test

A spacecraft blasted off Monday to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft ...

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Spacecraft to launch towards knocked off course asteroid

The mission aims to re-visit the asteroid Nasa diverted when it crashed a probe into it.

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New study eases concerns over possible 'doomsday' asteroid swarm

Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren't as many as we thought.

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A European spacecraft launches to perform a crash scene investigation on an asteroid

A NASA spacecraft knocked into an asteroid two years ago to test planetary defense. Now, a new mission will inspect the ...

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Europe launches Hera asteroid probe on SpaceX rocket

Europe's Hera asteroid probe blasted off from Florida on a SpaceX rocket on Monday, beginning a two-year voyage to revisit an ...

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Weather may delay launch of mission to study deflected asteroid

Stormy weather has threatened to delay the launch of Europe's Hera spacecraft, which is scheduled to blast off on Monday, ...

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SpaceX Launches ESA’s Hera Asteroid Mission

The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will investigate an asteroid that NASA deliberately struck with another spacecraft ...

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