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ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA chased down the Orion spacecraft after its record-breaking reentry into Earth’s atmosphere Sunday to conclude the Artemis I mission that lifted off from Kennedy Space Center more than three weeks ago.

ORLANDO, Fla. — NASA officials said the Orion spacecraft traveled to its farthest distance from Earth on Monday, two days after breaking a record set by Apollo 13.

Australian shares close sharply lower, after the US Federal Reserve delivers another 0.75-of-a-percentage-point rise and gives no indication of when they will stop, sending Wall Street tumbling.

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NASA on Tuesday celebrated exceeding expectations during a mission to deflect a distant asteroid, in a sci-fi like test of humanity's ability to stop an incoming cosmic object from devastating life on Earth. The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September…

NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, better known as DART, successfully shifted the orbit of an asteroid known as Dimorphos — a huge victory for local scientists and engineers whose work was involved in the mission, NASA officials announced Tuesday.

Mission shows Nasa 'serious as a defender of this planet'

The mission sets a precedent as to how humanity might deflect a deadly Earth-bound asteroid in the future

Taking a page out of science fiction and Hollywood scripts, US space agency aims to prevent collision with Earth.