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Kevin Nolan

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Kevin Nolan is. a Lecturer in Physics at TU Dublin and a PhD candidate in Space Science at MTU

NASA DART and LICIS Cube Sat approach the double asteroid Didymos and Dimorphos 11 million km from Earth.
Image credit: NASA/JHUAOA

Why NASA is crashing a $300m spacecraft into an asteroid

The DART probe is part of a mission to see if future collisions between asteroids and Earth can be stopped

Space • 18 May

NASA's Space Launch System (SLS), a rocket set to return people to the moon. Photo: NASA

6 space and astonomy events to look out for in 2022

From telescopes and moon missions to the first Irish space probe, here's what's some of what's happening in deep-space this year

Space • 13 Jan

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