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NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft is on its way to collide with an asteroid, and on its way, its snapped images of Jupiter.

Planetary defense experts have expressed their concern in a new survey that growing satellite numbers in orbit around Earth may impact asteroid detection.

A recent exercise by NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office and the International Asteroid Warning Network is now complete.

NASA has posted a new video that's a part of its Planetary Defense series that reveals what NASA knows about asteroids and comets.

NASA will launch its very first planetary defense mission later this week, where it will crash a spacecraft into an asteroid.

NASA has answered the question via a short YouTube video, 'Is NASA really crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid?' Well, yes.

NASA has announced that it has budgeted in $150 million for a new planetary defensive instrument.