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Asteroid Impact Aftermath Time-Lapse - NASA DART

See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...
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Small Asteroid Captured Hours Prior To Earth Impact

Small asteroid 2022 EB5 impacted Earth was discovered by Krisztián Sárneczky using the 0.60-m Schmidt telescope at Konkoly Observatory in Hungary. Credit: Space.com | footage: Krisztián Sárneczky / or ...
New Scientist

NASA's asteroid deflection test had unexpected and puzzling outcome

The DART mission achieved its goal of changing one asteroid’s orbit around another, but questions remain about why the orbit ...
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Our moon's 2 sides are more different than we thought, lunar samples reveal

China's Chang'e 6 mission returned the first-ever far-side lunar samples, revealing new insights into the moon's interior.

An asteroid might be heading for the moon. Should we nuke it?

A paper from several NASA scientists and other researchers explores whether an asteroid with a 4% chance of hitting the moon ...
Arizona Daily Star

Tucson astronomer: Media frenzy about unlikely asteroid impact created real fear

Asteroid 2024 YR4 is no longer headed for Earth, but the fear it caused has astronomers worried about scare tones in the media. The asteroid initially had an approximate 3% chance for impact with ...