Near-Earth Objects (NEOs ... Can anything be done to prevent an impact? In 2022, NASA's DART mission ("Double Asteroid Redirection Test") successfully crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos ...
China has initiated the formation of a planetary defence team to address the potential danger posed by near-Earth asteroids.
NASA has announced an asteroid that is heading this way, has a greater chance of hitting the Earth than initially thought.
YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying ...
For now, it's zooming away from Earth, and its next close pass will not ... led the investigation for NASA's 2022 DART mission, which successfully nudged an asteroid off its course using a ...