Comet MAPS faces a make-or-break moment as it dives toward the sun on April 4 — could it shine in the daytime sky?

Comet MAPS is about to face its ultimate test as it sweeps just 101,000 miles above the sun’s surface.

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NASA’s DART planetary defense mission reveals asteroids hurling ‘cosmic snowballs’ at each other

New images from NASA’s DART asteroid-smashing mission show space rocks exchanging material in a slow process that reshapes their surfaces over millions of years.
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NASA’s asteroid-smashing DART spacecraft hit so hard, it changed its target space rocks’ orbit around the sun

The mission without a doubt proves that we could deflect a hazardous asteroid away from Earth — so long as we discover it in the nick of time.
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