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NASA will launch its DART mission next month which aims to see whether smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid can knock it off course.

The Trojan asteroids have barely changed since the birth of our solar system. NASA's Lucy mission aims to spend 12 years exploring them.

An illustration showing the Lucy spacecraft passing one of the Trojan Asteroids near Jupiter. Southwest Research Institute Next week, NASA plans to

The mission's target is supposed to be a binary asteroid known as Didymos, which is also classified as a near-Earth object.

The whole thing will be live streamed on NASA TV.

NASA experts are gearing up to launch a spacecraft that sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi flick.The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DAR

The spacecraft will hit the moon nearly head-on at a speed that's faster than a bullet.

An artist's illustration of asteroids flying by Earth. Peter Carril/ESA NASA's new spacecraft mission aims to smash into the asteroid Dimorphos to

US space agency says it will be testing the possibility of intercepting an asteroid by smashing into it at nearly 15,000 miles per hour

Not quite Deep Impact, but still alarming