NASA has said that an asteroid larger than 131 feet could cause significant damage to Earth, f it were to make impact.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully moved asteroid moonlet Dimorphos "by a whopping 33 minutes," according to NASA. See the highlights here. Credit: NASA ...
On November 24, 2021, NASA launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) on a long journey to the double asteroid ...
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NASA and European Space Agency collaborating on planetary defense missions to determine if we can deflect near-Earth objects away from Earth.
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The European Space Agency (ESA) launched an augmented reality app meant to adverstise the Hera mission to the Dimorphos ...
Asteroid-detecting AI algorithms have already identified 27,000 new pieces of space debris, bringing the known number to 1.3 ...