The moonlet orbiting the asteroid Dinkinesh is 'an extraordinarily unique and complex body.’ By Laura Baisas | Published May ...
In September of 2022, NASA’s DART mission smashed into the astroid Dimorphos at 14,000 miles per hour to test the effects of asteroid deflection. Although the mission was a success, scientists ...
With the help of Google Cloud, scientists churned through hundreds of thousands of images of the night sky to reveal that the solar system is filled with unseen objects. By Kenneth Chang A couple ...
Asteroid mining is hard. Companies wanting to exploit their rich mineral resources face not only the difficulties of getting to the asteroids – a feat only achieved for the first time in 2001 ...
After Hera speeds past Mars, it's onward to Didymos and its now -misshapen companion Dimorphos (thanks to the collision), ...
NASA's proved in 2022 that humans could redirect 'city killer' asteroids away from Earth - but with unintended consequences that could put our planet in danger. A pair of Italian astronomers found ...
A Nasa mission that knocked an asteroid off course in 2022 to test methods for defending Earth created debris that scientists now believe could become meteorites that will punch craters in Mars.
A NASA experiment that sent a spacecraft slamming into the side of an asteroid may have sent debris flying into space, possibly into the path of Mars. The asteroid, named Dimorphos, was hit by ...
When the e-scooter company Matt Gialich used to work for had to pause production owing to a shortage of platinum, a key component for the microprocessor that translates commands from the controls ...
The earth is under threat from an asteroid hurtling towards it. You have been sent to the asteroid to destroy it and save the Earth from invasion by a swarm of blood-thirsty phantoms ...