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The DART mission doesn't have much aboard — and that's kind of the point.

NASA on Monday will attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spaceship launched from California…

A NASA spacecraft is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA announced Thursday that the cryogenic fueling test this week at Kennedy Space Center did well enough to keep moving toward a launch attempt as early as Tuesday.

Astronomers are hoping that spacecraft Double Asteroid Redirection Test will shorten the orbit time by about 10 minutes while destroying itself in the process, providing hope should we ever need to deflect a true threat

A NASA spacecraft is about to clobber a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away

An international research team has used satellite data to demonstrate that concentrations of pollutant particles have decreased significantly since the year 2000. Read more on Dynamite News:

NASA has released its first image of Neptune captured by the James Webb Space Telescope as it shows off its capabilities within our home solar system.

The last time scientists caught such a clear glimpse of Neptune's rings was when Voyager 2 flew past the distant planet in 1989. Now the James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a crisp new image.

The rings have not been since the Voyager 2 mission flew past the planet

Nasa is testing its meteor-destroying capabilities in readiness for any large asteroids discovered on a collision course with Earth