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Liberal MP criticises Scott Morrison for dithering on his promise of a federal integrity commission, and universities across Australia will get a shot at one of four $60 million research grants in a government push to commercialise research.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA launched a spacecraft Tuesday night on a mission to smash into an asteroid a...

A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid has successfully launched.

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 def

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

“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 have joined together to launch what NASA calls a mission of “planetary defense.”

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

(Last Updated On: November 24, 2021)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. The DART spacecraft soared into the night sky at 10:21 p.m. […]

Scientists estimate 460-foot asteroids strike once every 20,000 years.