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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 if one were to threaten Earth.

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SpaceX and NASA have just launched the DART planetary defense spacecraft into space where it will attempt to shove an asteroid out of its orbit.

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

A NASA spacecraft that will deliberately crash into an asteroid is preparing to launch.

“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.

A NASA mission to deliberately crash a spacecraft into an asteroid to demonstrate the worlds first planetary defence system, lifted off from its base at V...

The spacecrafts mission is 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.

This technique could prove useful for altering the course of an asteroid years or decades before it bears down on Earth.

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