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Nasa’s Dart probe to smash into asteroid in first Earth defence test

Most mission scientists would wince at the thought of their spacecraft being smashed to smithereens. But for those...

DART Sees Asteroid Didymos for the First Time. In two Weeks, it’ll Crash Into the Moon

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission is on its way to rendezvous with the double-asteroid Didymos. When...

Samples From Asteroid Ryugu Contain Bits That Came From Outside the Solar System

Long before our Sun began to form, stars were dying in our part of the galaxy. One of...

Lucy’s Solar Array is Fixed! (Mostly)

How do you fix the solar array of a spacecraft millions of miles away from the Earth hurdling through...

The Mini Missions Aboard the Artemis Rocket Pack a Big Punch

All eyes will be on the moon as the Artemis mission’s inaugural launch blasts toward our lunar neighbor in...

Watch OSIRIS-REx’s Complex Orbital Path Around Bennu in This Cool Animation

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft conducted a two-year reconnaissance and sample collection at the asteroid Bennu, providing crucial data about the...

NASA Delayed the Psyche Launch. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal

For years, Lindy Elkins-Tanton had been looking forward to blasting a probe to the metallic asteroid Psyche, which is...

China plans to use the Moon as outpost to defend Earth against asteroids

It's no secret that China has big plans for a "Planetary Defense System" to protect the Earth against celestial...

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