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Deep Impact Is More Than Just the Other 1998 Asteroid Movie
Elijah Wood, Morgan Freeman, Robert Duvall, and Téa Leoni star in the disaster drama, which just turned 25.
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This Asteroid Impact Simulator Lets You Destroy the World
Hundreds of thousands of asteroids lurk in our solar system, and while space agencies track many of them, there’s always the chance that one will suddenly appear on a collision course with Earth. A new app on the website Neal.fun demonstrates what could happen if one smacked into any part of the planet.
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The Most Intriguing Images of DART’s Fatal Encounter With an Asteroid
NASA’s DART spacecraft was 6.8 million miles from Earth when it slammed into a football stadium-sized asteroid on Monday. Despite this immense distance, images from the impact and its aftermath are coming in, and they’re proving to be better — and far more bizarre — than we expected.
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NASA’s DART Deploys Camera Probe Ahead of Asteroid Impact
DART won’t survive its mission to deflect an asteroid, but the recently deployed LICIACube — a tiny probe equipped with cameras — will document the encounter in gory detail.