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Asteroid 2024 YR4 once feared to strike the moon now appears harmless

Initially, much uncertainty surrounded the flight path of the space rock known as 2024 YR4, a small asteroid that has recently become an object of much scientific attention. 2024 YR4, measuring ...

NASA's DART test for planetary defense proved it can shift an asteroid's solar orbit

Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.
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Massive 44-foot asteroid nears Earth: What you need to know

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory reports that the near-Earth asteroid 2021 ER will approach Earth on Friday for a safe yet ...

A big asteroid won't hit the moon. Many scientists had wished it would.

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NASA rules out chance of lunar asteroid impact in 2032

NASA on Thursday walked back a prediction that an asteroid had a "small, but notable" chance of impacting Earth or the moon in 2032 based on newly analyzed data.

NASA’s DART Mission Did More Than Just Nudge an Asteroid, Study Says

In September 2022, NASA’s DART spacecraft rammed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos at nearly 15,000 miles per hour (24,000 ...
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Trump orders NASA to return to the moon by 2028

Following a major agency-wide overhaul recently announced at the Kennedy Space Center, NASA plans to launch four Artemis missions before the end of President Donald Trump’s current term. If the ...