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From asteroid mining to Europa rovers, the 15 space projects NASA is actually funding

NASA is quietly bankrolling some of the most ambitious concepts in space exploration, from optical asteroid mining to ...
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All About Project Icarus, the Student Mission to Stop a World-Ending Asteroid

Back in 1967, a group of MIT students were handed a wild assignment: come up with a plan to stop a massive asteroid from wiping out the planet. They took it seriously, worked through the maths, the ...

NASA tracks 91-foot asteroid racing toward Earth on 13 April — But is it dangerous?

NASA is tracking asteroid 2026 FV6, a 91-foot airplane-sized space rock set to make a safe close approach to Earth on April ...
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Once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed, asteroid 2024 YR4’s path is now clearer

The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to be off the table. Discovered at the end of December 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 ...
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NASA’s DART asteroid smash shows we could deflect a future threat

When NASA’s DART spacecraft deliberately crashed into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, it did more than change the asteroid’s local orbit — it slightly shifted the path of the entire asteroid pair ...
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Asteroid 2026 GD: A Close Encounter with Earth and the Science Behind It

Spread the loveOn April 9, 2026, NASA successfully tracked a house-sized asteroid known as 2026 GD, which made a close approach to Earth, passing at a distance of approximately 156,000 miles. This ...
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Asteroid-Smashing NASA Mission Sped Up Space Rocks’ Journey Around the Sun

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits. By Katrina Miller In 2022, NASA deliberately crashed a ...