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The DART spacecraft launched this morning on its mission to the binary asteroid Didymos, where it will collide with the space rock for science.

NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night on a mission to smash into an asteroid and test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course...

Nasa has launched the Dart mission that will crash into an asteroid in an attempt to demonstrate a new planetary defence system.

NASA is testing ways to prevent a planet-killing asteroid from crashing into Earth.

NASAs Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), a box-shaped space probe, launched aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California this morning.

The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in a $330 million project with echoes of the Bruce Willis movie “Armageddon.”

On a winter morning in 2013, a meteor the size of a four-story building screamed across the country, exploding near the city of Chelyabinsk and injuring more than 1,600 people amid widespread property damage.

NASA is testing ways to prevent a planet-killing asteroid from crashing into Earth.

NASA is preparing a mission to deliberately smash a spacecraft into an asteroid—a test run should humanity ever need to stop a giant space rock from wiping out life on Earth.

NASA and SpaceX on Tuesday night launched a spacecraft that will crash into an asteroid, the first-ever test to see if it's possible to redirect a space rock that could smash into the planet.