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Planetary defense experts prefer nudging a threatening asteroid out of the way, rather than blowing it up.

A NASA spaceship on Monday struck an asteroid seven million miles away in order to deflect its orbit, succeeding in a historic test of humanity's ability to prevent a celestial object from devastating life on Earth. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor hit its target, the space rock Dimorphos,…

In celebration of NASA's DART mission, searching for information about it will result in an animation and tipped screen.

The mission was devised to determine whether a spacecraft is capable of changing the trajectory of an asteroid through sheer kinetic force

A NASA spacecraft successfully crashed into an asteroid approximately 6.8 million miles from Earth in a test to determine if the impact can nudge the space rock slightly off course.

The DART satellite successfully crashed. Can we apply its lessons in time to protect Earth from an asteroid impact?

Bid to change asteroid’s course marks ‘new era of humankind’ as agency seeks to protect Earth from future disaster

NASA spacecraft rams distant asteroid in test of Earth defense

A NASA spacecraft successfully crashed into an asteroid approximately 7 million miles from Earth in a test to determine if the impact can nudge the space rock slightly off course.