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A team from the observatory publish their findings ahead of Asteroid Day

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft has been steadily moving toward its September 26 encounter with the double asteroid Didymos

Asteroid impacts are some of the most devastating possible natural disasters due to the sheer unrivaled levels of destruction they can bring. 

Just over one mile across, the behemoth will keep its distance 2.5 million miles from Earth.

SpaceX successfully launched its fourth Starlink mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base Friday afternoon on schedule, despite an initial concern about windy conditions that projected liftoff to be 40% favorable.

There was an initial probability of 0.026% chance of the asteroid hitting Earth on May 6. An asteroid known as 2009 JF1 with the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza is still likely to impact Earth on Friday, May 6.

The space rock, up to twice as big as the Empire State Building, wont come so close to Earth again until 2059.

Beijings asteroid mission, which was laid out by the deputy director of the China National Space Administration, is scheduled for launch sometime in the mid-2020s.

The space rock, named 418135 (2008 AG33), will come about two million miles from the planet, which is roughly eight times further from the Earth than the moon.

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