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NASA launches DART asteroid mission to destroy a spacecraft to (potentially) save planet Earth

"Liftoff of the Falcon 9 and DART on NASA's first planetary defense test to intentionally crash into an asteroid," NASA spokesperson Marie Lewis said during a live broadcast of the launch.

Hubble telescope's annual 'grand tour' tracks changes in outer solar system

The tradition allows astronomers to monitor how the atmospheres of these worlds — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune — change over time. But the photos are, of course, also stunning. NASA released images from this year's "grand tour" on Nov. 18.

NASA launches mission to crash into a near-Earth asteroid to try to change its motion in space

The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off at 10:21 p.m. PT (1:21 a.m. ET) on November 23 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Live coverage of the event aired on NASA TV and the ...

Hubble telescope sees a space 'snowman' thousands of light-years away

A new release from the Hubble telescope's vast archive shares an incredible space "snowman" filled with glowing gas. The image shows the Snowman Nebula, which is a cloud of gas and dust in deep space. The Hubble Space Telescope's sharp eyes picked up ...

China boosts Earth-observation abilities with 2 Gaofen satellite launches

China continued its record-breaking year of launches by sending two satellites into orbit in recent days. The two new satellites launched on separate rockets and from different space centers, but they share a name, Gaofen ("high resolution").

DART timeline: What's next for NASA's asteroid-smacking mission after launch

NASA's first planetary defense mission is underway, though we'll have to wait a little while for its promised in-space fireworks. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) probe launched from ...

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars just snagged its newest rock sample (photos)

Perseverance landed in February on the floor of Mars' Jezero Crater, which hosted a big lake and a river delta billions of years ago. The rover is hunting for signs of ancient Mars life and collecting dozens of samples, which a joint NASA-European Space ...

Russia launches new Prichal module to International Space Station

A new Russian module is on its way to the International Space Station. A Russian-built Soyuz rocket carrying a modified Progress cargo spacecraft and the new Prichal docking module lifted off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday (Nov.

Tiny-alien invasion risk: More space biosecurity measures needed?

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Preparing for an alien invasion of the microbial kind? Some scientists believe that – as humans become increasingly space-faring – we need stronger space biosecurity measures. Image via Pablo Stanic/ Unsplash.

Meat-eating vulture bees have evolved special gut bacteria to feast on flesh

(CNN) The vast majority of bees feed on pollen and nectar, but certain species have evolved to feast on meat, substituting dead animal carcasses for flower meadows. To better understand this extreme ...