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NASA’s DART Mission Deflected an Asteroid – But Unleashed a Swarm of Space Boulders  SciTechDaily Giant space ‘boulders’ unleashed by NASA’s DART mission aren’t behaving as expected, revealing hidden risks of deflecting asteroids  Live Science Remember That Asteroid NASA Deflected in a Test of Saving Earth? We Have Bad News  Yahoo Deflecting Asteroids Isn’t Simple According to New Data from DART  Universe Today “Something …

Today, the sky holds an exciting spectacle as 2025 MA90, an asteroid approximately 280 feet in diameter, makes its close flyby of Earth. Traveling at over 20,000 miles per hour, it is set to pass a safe distance of six million kilometers from our planet. While the size and speed of this space rock are certainly noteworthy, there is no …

Asteroid the size of 145 Elmos to fly past Earth on Tuesday, July 15 – NASA  The Jerusalem Post Giant stadium-sized asteroid to make close approach to Earth on July 11. Check details  Hindustan Times NASA warns! 280-foot asteroid 2025 MA90 to make close Earth flyby today at 20,263 mph; here’s what you must know  Times of India NASA warns! 1200- foot asteroid …

GOLDEN, Colorado — There are those who envision big bucks pouring in from the heavens by cashing in on resource-rich asteroids. In increasing number, probes are being dispatched by multiple countries that can plumb the depths of deliverables from space rocks. Metallic asteroids are made up mostly of iron and nickel, and also contain platinum group metals, or PGMs for …

In late 2022, NASA celebrated its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) as a massive success, a proof of concept for saving humanity in case a similar space rock were to ever head straight for Earth. The small spacecraft smashed into asteroid Didymos’ moonlet Dimorphos at a violent 14,000 mph, knocking it severely off course. But three years later, astronomers found …

In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to determine whether humanity could theoretically save itself from a catastrophic asteroid impact. DART collided with Dimorphos, a small moonlet orbiting a larger asteroid called Didymos, on September …

Earth may no longer be threatened by an impact from the asteroid 2024 YR4, but that doesn’t mean this 200-foot-wide space rock can’t still impact our lives. The asteroid, which at one point had a 1 in 43 chance of striking our planet, now has a 1 in 25 (4%) chance of hitting the moon in 2032. New research suggests …