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Dinosaurs were on the up before asteroid downfall — ScienceDaily
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that the dinosaurs were struck down in their prime and were not in decline, at the time the asteroid hit.…
Huge planet killer asteroid spotted between Earth and Venus
In sinister news for a spooky day, astronomers announced that they have spotted a huge asteroid nearly a mile wide thst could one day intersect with…
NASA develops a Plan B for the Psyche asteroid mission
NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State Univ./Space Systems Loral/Peter RubinIn June, NASA's Psyche asteroid mission, the agency's first mission designed to…
Largest potentially hazardous asteroid detected in eight years
Twilight observations with the US Department of Energy-fabricated Dark Energy Camera at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NSF's…
Here’s what happened to the asteroid NASA crashed a spacecraft into
NASA recently successfully crashed a spacecraft into a small asteroidcalled Dimorphos. The test was done in order to prepare for a possible unfortunate…
NASA Confirms DART Mission Test Successfully Altered Asteroid Dimorphos’ Orbit by 32 Minutes:…
NASA on Tuesday celebrated exceeding expectations during a mission to deflect a distant asteroid, in a sci-fi like test of humanity's ability to stop an…
NASA Confirms DART Mission Test Altered Asteroid Dimorphos’ Orbit
NASA on Tuesday celebrated exceeding expectations during a mission to deflect a distant asteroid, in a sci-fi like test of humanity's ability to stop an…
NASA’s DART mission successfully shoved an asteroid | Science News
It worked! Humanity has, for the first time, purposely moved a celestial object.
As a test of a potential asteroid-deflection scheme, NASA’s…
You can sleep better at night: NASA declares the DART asteroid mission a success
NASA/ESA/STScI/HubbleAlthough this mission confirmed that NASA has the technology necessary to deflect a potentially hazardous asteroid, there is no…