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Space.com

While neither Dimorphos nor Didymos pose a threat to our planet, and nothing that happens today can change that, the results of the DART mission will provide crucial data for scientists and engineers to develop plans for planetary defense.

The Washington Post

Maarten Schmidt, the Dutch-born American astronomer who explained the mysterious heavenly bodies known as quasars and in so doing helped create the modern picture of the universe, its structure and its history, died Sept. 17. at his home in Fresno, …

CNN

A NASA spacecraft will deliberately slam into an asteroid Monday, and it’s all in the name of planetary protection. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will crash into the space rock at …

The Washington Post

They didn’t. And when the mission management team met Monday morning, it decided it was best to roll the 322-foot-tall rocket, with the spacecraft mounted on top, back the 4 miles to the massive Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center.

The New York Times

Space rocks have hit Earth with devastating impact. Just ask the dinosaurs. The good news: At present, astronomers do not know of any asteroids that have any chance of hitting Earth in the next century …

CNN

The largest planet in our solar system, the gas giant will be at opposition, meaning Earth is directly between it and the sun, said Trina L. Ray, deputy science manager for the Europa Clipper mission at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, …

CNN

The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will crash into the space rock at 7:14 p.m. ET after launching 10 months ago. The spacecraft will attempt to affect the motion of an …

BBC News

In the coming hours, the American space agency will crash a probe into an asteroid. Nasa’s Dart mission wants to see how difficult it would be to stop a sizeable space rock from hitting Earth. The demonstration is taking place some 11 million km away …

Phys.Org

The work, published in the September 23 issue of Physical Review Letters, could revolutionize how scientists investigate systems containing many interacting electrons. Moreover, if scalable to other problems, the approach could potentially aid in the …

WIRED

Bad weather forced a third delay for the space agency’s SLS rocket plans—another setback for the uncrewed back-to-the-moon mission.