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Orlando Sentinel · 1h

A spacecraft is on its way to a harmless asteroid slammed by NASA in a previous save-the-Earth test

Scientists are eager to examine the impact’s aftermath up close to know exactly how effective Dart was and what changes might be needed to safeguard Earth in the future.

Spacecraft launches to investigate asteroid threats to Earth

The European Space Agency will probe a harmless asteroid Nasa hit in 2022 as part of a "planetary defence test".

Chron on MSN · 2h

NASA smacked an asteroid in 2022. Now, a spacecraft is on the way for part 2.

Remember when NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022? Today, a different probe was successfully launched to get a close-up look at the aftermath of the collision. About the size of a small car,

SpaceX launches Hera asteroid mission Mon.

Interesting Engineering · 2h

ESA’s Hera mission launched aboard SpaceX, to probe NASA knocked off asteroid Dimorphos

ESA has launched the first planetary defense Hera spacecraft aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 to investigate NASA-deflected Dimorphos asteroid.

Newsweek on MSN · 5h

Lift-Off! SpaceX Launches Planetary Defense Hera Mission to Asteroid

The mission is heading out into space to study the impact of NASA's successful high-speed collision with an asteroid in 2022.

The New York Times · 6h

European Space Mission Launches to Investigate an Asteroid Crash Site

The Hera spacecraft, expected to take flight Monday morning, is part of a broader effort to bolster humanity’s planetary defense readiness.

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Near-Earth asteroid data help probe possible fifth force in universe

In 2023, the NASA OSIRIS-REx mission returned a sample of dust and rocks collected on the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. In ...

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ESA launches Hera mission to return to deflected asteroid in bid to learn how to protect Earth

Hera will survey the asteroid deflected by NASA's DART spacecraft, the results of which could lay the foundation of Earth's ...

A European spacecraft launches to perform a crash scene investigation on an asteroid

The successful mission was only a test of the concept — to see, if an asteroid one day threatens to hit Earth, whether it ...

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Scientists Find Evidence It Wasn’t Just One Asteroid That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs

Scientists have discovered new evidence that it wasn't just one asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.

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Is Earth destined for another extinction-level asteroid event? | The Excerpt

Robin George Andrews, author of "How to Kill an Asteroid," joins The Excerpt to discuss how scientists are working to ...

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New study eases concerns over possible 'doomsday' asteroid swarm

Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren't as many as we thought.

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The dinosaur-killing asteroid turned ants into farmers

Dinosaurs certainly didn’t benefit from the Chicxulub asteroid impact, but that was a wholly different story for the ...

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An asteroid known as a 'mini-moon' will join Earth's orbit for 2 months starting Sunday

A small asteroid will join Earth's orbit around the sun for two months beginning Sunday, becoming a 'mini-moon.' ...

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