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Deflecting a Killer Asteroid Is More Complicated Than NASA Thought
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 ...
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What Would Happen If You Threw A Paper Airplane Out Of The ISS? New Study Finds Out
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NASA's asteroid-crash Earth defense tactic has a complication — DART ejected large boulders into space
When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...
Crashing into an asteroid creates chaotic space boulders
In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...
China jumps ahead in the race to achieve a new kind of reuse in space
But these Mission Extension Vehicles don't have the ability to transfer fluids from one satellite to another. That is the ...
NASA's Dart probe has unexpectedly knocked massive chunks out of asteroids
When NASA steered its Dart probe into an asteroid, it was supposed to determine how much it could be deflected. The ...
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Resident shares unbelievable photo after discovering SpaceX crash debris: 'There is even more out there in the oceans'
"Eventually you can superglue a whole spaceship together." Resident shares unbelievable photo after discovering SpaceX crash ...
One Way Disney's Elio Is Actually Really Accurate, According To The U.S. Space Force
While one might not think of Pixar’s Elio as the title among 2025 movie releases to be praised by members of the U.S.