NASA Smashed Into an Asteroid in 2022. The Debris Could End Up Reaching Earth

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The asteroid Dimorphos seen two seconds before impact by the DART mission.

Scientists think they've found the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs. It could help prevent a future mass extinction on Earth.

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Dinosaurs gather around a pond near an ominous red sky
Many experts agree an asteroid led to the extinciton of the dinosaurs.

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Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Has a Bizarre Origin Story

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Illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico.

This Is the Last Image Taken by NASA’s Historic Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft

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Infrared image of Fornax constellation taken by NASA's NEOWISE space telescope.

Most Near-Earth Objects Could Be ‘Dark Comets,’ Neither Comets Nor Asteroids

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Artist's impression of a dark comet in space

Scientists built a 3-ton camera with a 5-foot-wide lens to discover hazardous asteroids that NASA can't see

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Travis Lange, the deputy project manager of the LSST, shone a flashlight into the LSST Camera, which has a 5-foot-wide lens.

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The Asteroid Dimorphos Looks Totally Different After NASA's DART Mission Walloped It

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In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a tiny asteroid to nudge it off its orbital course.

NASA released the first close-up photos of the largest asteroid sample ever collected

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The sample collector with a pile of asteroid material resting on it.

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NASA is visiting an asteroid valued at more than the entire world economy's worth, but that's not why it's going there

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graphic of what the asteroid is thought to look like
An artistic concept of what Psyche might look like.

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Space-Scanning Algorithm Spots 'Potentially Hazardous' 600-Foot Asteroid

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An asteroid-hunting algorithm set to be implemented in the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s 10-year survey spotted its first potentially hazardous asteroid, proving the algorithm’s capabilities in advance of the observatory’s opening.

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