A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test
A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...
SpaceX launch: Europe's Hera spacecraft on way to study asteroid Dimorphos
A European spacecraft is on its way to get an up-close look at an asteroid that NASA deliberately crashed its own vehicle ...
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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 ...
Rocket blasts off into space to investigate asteroid rammed by spacecraft
Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) spacecraft collided with Dimorphos in the first test of deflecting an asteroid ...
SpaceX launches Hera spacecraft to study NASA’s asteroid impact on Dimorphos
SpaceX launched ESA's Hera spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket to study the impact of NASA's 2022 DART mission on asteroid ...
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Hera spacecraft to probe asteroid deflected by defence test
Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when it smashed into an asteroid during the first test of Earth's planetary ...
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Nuking a huge asteroid could save Earth, lab experiment suggests
The biggest real-life test of our planetary defences was carried out in 2022, when NASA's fridge-sized DART spacecraft smashed into a 160-metre (525-feet) wide asteroid, successfully knocking it ...
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Work is underway on NASA's next-generation asteroid hunter
The mirrors for NASA's Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope are being installed and aligned, and work on other spacecraft components is accelerating. NASA's new asteroid-hunting spacecraft ...
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X-rays from a nuclear explosion could redirect an asteroid
In 2023, with the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission, NASA showed it could potentially deflect a cosmic strike by crashing a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos. Although ...
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Scientists successfully ‘nuke asteroid’ — in a lab mock-up
“It’s very impressive work.” This spacecraft just smashed into an asteroid in an attempt to change its path Nathan Moore, a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New ...