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NASA has issued a warning about potentially dangerous asteroids going to head towards Earth, and it intends to use DART mission to avoid a collision.

China has announced plans for a new space mission in 2025, aimed at deflecting potential earth-hitting asteroids.

A gigantic "potentially hazardous" asteroid that may be twice the size of the Empire State Building is set to zoom past Earth Thursday (April 28), according to NASA.

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While NASA's DART mission will reach its targeted asteroid in late 2022, China is working on its own program to deflect asteroids.

Currently, the only asteroid defense project to have truly gotten off the ground is the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission, an initiative developed by NASA and John Hopkins University.

Every 10 years, NASA asks scientists to evaluate the state of planetary science and offer guidance about which questions are top priorities for the community as a whole in a process dubbed a decadal survey, and the newest such report is now public.

Known as the Committee on the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey, it designates a Uranus Orbiter and Probe as the highest-priority flagship mission.

Mysterious, icy worlds in our solar system should be an exploration priority going forward, according to a new report published Tuesday.

There are many intriguing, if not thrilling, space events happening in 2022: NASA's moon megarocket launch, a mission to move an asteroid, stargazing, and beyond.