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NASA is about to launch the first mission of its new planetary defense office. A spacecraft will attempt to knock a small asteroid off course by ramming into it.

NASA is set to launch DART, a spacecraft specifically designed to crash into an asteroid to demonstrate a planetary defense technique.

The Russia incident was a warning.

The moonlet the asteroid wants to move will only be visible in its sensors an hour before impact.

On Tuesday night, NASA is launching its first planetary defense test mission, known as the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART.

NASA’s DART mission to redirect a non-threatening asteroid is set to launch later this week. Here’s what you need to know about this historic

A spacecraft is scheduled to blast off from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 10:20 p.m. on Tuesday, in the first real-world test of a technique that could someday be used to protect Earth from a threatening space rock.

NASA is about to launch the first mission of its new planetary defense office. A spacecraft will attempt to knock a small asteroid off course by ramming into it.

NASA is about to launch the first mission of its new planetary defense office. A spacecraft will attempt to knock a small asteroid off course by ramming into it.

Officials say the test mission will provide “further insights into how we can deflect potentially dangerous near-Earth objects in the future.”