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NASA is celebrating the success of humanity’s first test of a planetary defense system: crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid in order to change its orbit. NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, or DART, was intentionally smashed into the asteroid Dimorphos at 7:14 p.m. US Eastern time last night, spelling the end to a successful…

This year held some truly out-there moments in the world of science and space travel.

With Space X’s Mars rocket explosions and a spacecraft returning to Earth with pieces of an asteroid — 2023 had some wild moments.

By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — This year held some truly out-there moments in the world of science and space travel.With

With Space X’s Mars rocket explosions and a spacecraft returning to Earth with pieces of an asteroid — 2023 had some wild moments.

NASA's Lucy mission recently got up close and personal with a Jovian asteroid and made an incredible discovery.

(CNN) — Dinkinesh, a small asteroid that NASA’s Lucy mission visited last week, continues to surprise.

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NASA's Lucy mission recently passed by a small asteroid called Dinkinesh, which turned out to be a fascinating system all of its own.

The Lucy spacecraft’s encounter with asteroid Dinkinesh has revealed a bizarre “contact binary” double-moon companion