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Sweden votes in its first female prime minister: Magdalena Andersson will be the first woman to lead the Scandinavian nation, reports the BBC. Her election came after her party did a last-minute deal with the opposition Left party, and she will replace Stefan Lofven as head of the center-left Social Democrats. Before Andersson's win, Sweden was the only Nordic country to have never elected a woman as a prime minister. Weather update: Today, it looks...

It is scheduled to reach the asteroid next September.

LOS ANGELES, Nov 23 (Reuters) - A spacecraft that must ultimately crash to succeed was launched late on Tuesday from California on a NASA mission to demonstrate the world's first planetary defense system, designed to deflect an asteroid from a potential doomsday collision with Earth.

Nasa will test whether an asteroid threatening Earth can be knocked off course by slamming a spacecraft into one.

“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.

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.

A SpaceX rocket was set to blast off from California late Tuesday as NASA seeks to demonstrate a first-of-its-kind planetary defense system, designed to deflect an asteroid from a potential doomsday collision with Earth. The DART mission will test NASA's ability to alter an asteroid's trajectory with kinetic force - crashing a robot spacecraft into…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid has successfully launched. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid

NASA has launched a spacecraft 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

NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night to test whether it would be possible to knock a speeding space rock off course if one were to threaten Earth.