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NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, known as DART, has produced a result that goes well beyond what the mission originally set out to prove. When the spacecraft slammed into the small asteroid ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has discovered an interstellar comet that’s wandered into our backyard. The space agency spotted the quick-moving object with the Atlas telescope in Chile earlier this ...

Jupiter’s moon Io is the most volcanically active place in the solar system. Let me tell you just how volcanic it is.