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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 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...

“This isn’t going to destroy the asteroid. It’s just going to give it a small nudge,” said mission official Nancy Chabot of Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, which is managing the project.

WASHINGTON (dpa-AFX) - NASA has launched a spacecraft to test technology that aims to deflect a dangerous asteroid off its course and avert collision with Earth.The US space agency's Double Asteroid

A SpaceX rocket was launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying a NASA-designed probe designed to strike a moonlet to test if ?such a

WBAL Radio 1090 AM - NASA launches spacecraft to test asteroid defense concept

LOS ANGELES (AP) — 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 if one were to threaten Earth.

The DART probe's impact with the asteroid should take place in the last quarter of 2022.

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 if one were to threaten Earth.  The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Red

DART probe, the size of a car, will slam into the Dimorphos ‘moonlet’ at more than 24,000kph in 2022.