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It's clobberin' time for the DART (Double Asteroid Redirect Test) mission

WASHINGTON — Bet the dinosaurs wish they’d thought of this.NASA on Monday will attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: Deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastating life on Earth.The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spaceship launched from California

Three space satellites will attempt to witness an epic event when NASA's DART mission rams itself into an asteroid named Dimorphos.

NASA will deliberately collide a space probe with an asteroid in a trial run of a new planetary defense plan on Monday night.The Double Asteroid Redir

NASA is deliberately crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to prove the possibility of deflecting space rocks using objects launched from Earth.

Apart from NASA's desperate attempts to get the Artemis-1 mission back on schedule; a cute Arctic wolf pup from China, a Don't Look Up-esque situation regarding an asteroid, as well as a disturbing new study that links nightmares and dementia, make up this week's science updates that you might have missed.

Bet the dinosaurs wish they'd thought of this. NASA on Monday will attempt a feat humanity has never before accomplished: deliberately smacking a spacecraft into an asteroid to slightly deflect its orbit, in a key test of our ability to stop cosmic objects from devastat...

NASAs DART asteroid mission is a trial run for Earths potential usage of planetary defence measures in the event of an asteroid hit.

Get latest articles and stories on Science at LatestLY. While the vast majority of asteroids and comets are not dangerous, and never will be, its also true that 66 million years ago, a giant asteroid impact on the Earth likely caused the extinction of the dinosaurs. Science News | NASAs DART Mission to Make First Attempt at Redirecting an Asteroid.

A NASA spacecraft will deliberately slam into an asteroid called Dimorphos in the early hours of Tuesday morning to see if this kind of kinetic impact can help deflect an asteroid posing a threat to Earth. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, or DART, spacecraft is about the size of a school bus, CNN reported.