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China plans to advance the planet's defense system by deflecting asteroids from Earth. China's National Space Administration is conducting its own asteroid deflection mission.

China’s National Space Administration has a new plan for a planetary defense system. A potential test mission to redirect an asteroid would launch around 2025.

NASA has been monitoring two massive asteroids that could be bigger than the Empire State Building and will be in close proximity to Earth. Fortunately, the cosmic objects are predicted to only skim pass our planet and not be in a direct collission course.

China has announced plans to construct a space defense system that is capable of protecting its spacecrafts and Earth.

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When the Psyche mission launches this summer, and when the DART spacecraft crashes into the asteroid Dimorphos this fall, be sure to raise a glass to science.

The asteroid, known as 2022 EB5, collided with Earth above Iceland at 21:22 GMT (16:22 ET) on Friday, only two hours after it was discovered by an astronomer

Some people in Iceland reported hearing a boom or seeing a flash of light around the time 2022 EB5 scooted across the sky between Greenland and Norway at 21:22 GMT (16:22 ET) on March 11.

The space rock called 2022 ES3 will be traveling at more than 40,000 miles per hour when it passes between the Earth and the moons orbit on Sunday.

SpaceX successfully launched its eighth flight for the year on Friday. Their rocket was loaded with 50 new internet satellites for the Starlink constellation network.