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This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope from Oct. 8, 2022, shows debris blasted off the surface of Dimorphus 285 hours after the spacecraft's intentional impact with the asteroid on Sept. 26. The shape of the tail has changed over time. Scientists continue to study the material ejected from the asteroid as impact and how it moves through space, to better understand the asteroid. Credits: NASA/ESA/STScI/Hubble

NASA confirms that the DART impact significantly changed the trajectory of the asteroid

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The duration of Dimorphos' orbit of the asteroid Didamos was shortened by about half an hour
An artist's impression of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test DART spacecraft accelerating towards the smaller of the two bodies in the Didymos asteroid system. Image: NASA/APL

NASA is making progress in developing a spacecraft to divert asteroids from their orbits

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A near-Earth asteroid. Illustration: shutterstock

The UN declares June 30 as International Asteroid Day

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Although NASA has located the largest asteroids approaching Earth, millions of smaller asteroids, which could also threaten our world, have not yet been cataloged.

Fear of the unknown

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Dr Nick Longrich from the Milner Center for the Study of Evolution. Photo: Anthony Prothero, University of Bath

The mammals almost went extinct with the dinosaurs

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Jupiter - shutterstock rendering of an original NASA image

A small blow to a large planet

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Asteroids pass by the Earth. Image: NASA

Ten thousand near-Earth objects have been discovered

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Another angle of the aerial explosion of a meteor over Russia, February 15, 2013

200 square meters of glass shattered in the city of Chelyabinsk * A senior member of the European Space Agency: apparently it is a small asteroid

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DE-STAR - A proposal for a system of satellites that will repel or even explode asteroids as they approach the Earth. Image: Philip M. Lubin, University of California at Santa Barbara

Fend off threatening asteroids while still in space using a laser

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Astronomers discover that a recently discovered asteroid is Earth's companion

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From the movie Encounters of the Third Kind - the moment of the encounter with the aliens PR photo

The UN denies that it appointed an ambassador for extraterrestrial affairs

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A small asteroid passed close to Earth

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divert the unwanted visitor

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