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DART sets sights on asteroid target

NASA's DART spacecraft recently got its first look at Didymos, the double-asteroid system that includes its target, Dimorphos. DART will intentionally collide with Dimorphos, Didymos' asteroid moonlet, on September 26. While the asteroid poses no threat to Earth, this is the first time a...

NASA will crash a spacecraft into a 525-foot-wide asteroid in September. Here’s how to watch it

NASA is preparing for an "Armageddon"-style mission that will involve crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid, and they want the public to be able to watch it live. Asteroids come dangerously close to Earth all the time, but it's been over 65 million years since...