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When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...

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Students and faculty at BYU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy understand the value of the stars, and they dedicate their ...

Around seven asteroids or comets are thought to hit Saturn every year, but we have never spotted one in the act. Now, it ...