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Podcast: Astronomy Daily: Space News Updates
Episode: Humanity Just Moved an Asteroid's Orbit Around the Sun
Description: ASTRONOMY DAILY — S05E57 | Saturday 7 March 2026  A landmark week for planetary defence — scientists confirm that NASA's DART impact didn't just move an asteroid's orbit around its companion, it shifted the entire binary system's path around the Sun. Plus: gravitational waves double, a European spacecraft goes silent, a 45-year theory bites the dust, a young Sun caught in the act — and a double planet show in tonight's sky.  In This Episode •      [00:00] Cold Open — Humanity moved a solar orbit •      [02:00] Story 1: DART changed Didymos's orbit around the Sun (Science Advances, March 2026) •      [06:00] Story 2: LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA doubles the gravitational wave catalog with GWTC-4 •      [10:00] Story...