Data analysis shows that the collision of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft with its target asteroid moonlet Dimorphos changed the asteroid’s orbit. Dimorphos, which does not pose a threat to Earth,
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NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft hit its target asteroid moonlet Dimorphos on Monday as part of the world’s first test of a planetary defense technology. NASA said Tuesday the test sought
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NASA is making final preparations to launch its first planetary defense test mission, which will attempt to kinetically impact the small moonlet asteroid named Dimorphos. The space agency said Friday that its
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