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Alameda County — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is taking part in NASA’s first-ever planetary defense test, which deliberately collides a spacecraft into an asteroid called Dimorphos.

A 330 metre asteroid called 4660 Nereus is predicted to pass 7.4 million kms past earth, but has been called "potentially hazardous" by NASA.

According to Nasa, a massive asteroid bigger than the size of the Eiffel Tower is expected to break into the orbit of Earth in over a week. The massive 1,082-foot space rock is on its way to earth and should pass the earth by December 11. Asteroid 4660 Nereus, which is well over 492 feet long and is expected to come within 4.6 million miles of Earth, has caught Nasa's attention.

Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics explains the science and objectives guiding the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test.

Smart Bomb: The completely unnecessary news analysis

It's late at night on November 23, 2021, and you looked to the skies to see...something. At 10:20 pm, NASA launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test

Hello and welcome back to Max Q! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving-slash-holiday weekend. It’s more than a little mind-boggling that we’re reaching the end of 2021, but that only means one thing: TC Sessions: Space is almost here! You can still join us for the two-day event; more details are below. As usual, […]

GAIL ILES, a senior lecturer in physics at RMIT University in Melbourne, explains NASAs latest DART mission...

A spacecraft is on its way to nudge a distant asteroid.

"I told you so, but no one wanted to listen to me. NASA's DART rocket lifted off today! It's going to do a little BAYHEM in space!"