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Trams and trains were halted between 8:30am and 11am as officers and paramedics rushed to the scene near the seaside stop

It has been hailed as a major boost for public transport enabling further expansion of the DART and wider rail services while decarbonising the existing diesel fleet.

Ten months after launch, NASA's asteroid-deflecting DART spacecraft neared a planned impact with its target on Monday in a test of the world's first planetary defense system, designed to prevent a doomsday collision with Earth

The DART mission aims to shift an asteroid's orbit through kinetic impact, in order to test and validate a method to protect Earth in case of an asteroid impact threat, according to NASA. Read more on Dynamite News:

A NASA spaceship on Monday struck an asteroid seven million miles away in order to deflect its orbit, succeeding in a historic test of humanity's ability to prevent a celestial object from devastating life on Earth. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor hit its target, the space rock Dimorphos,…

The mission was devised to determine whether a spacecraft is capable of changing the trajectory of an asteroid through sheer kinetic force

A NASA spacecraft successfully crashed into an asteroid approximately 6.8 million miles from Earth in a test to determine if the impact can nudge the space rock slightly off course.

A NASA spacecraft successfully crashed into an asteroid approximately 7 million miles from Earth in a test to determine if the impact can nudge the space rock slightly off course.

The mission's finale will test the ability of a spacecraft to alter an asteroid's trajectory with sheer kinetic force