Rare near-Earth asteroid Kamo’oalewa may have been created several million years ago when something slammed into the moon and ...
After Hera speeds past Mars, it's onward to Didymos and its now -misshapen companion Dimorphos (thanks to the collision), ...
The asteroid, named Dimorphos, was hit by NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) in September 2022 as part of an experiment to investigate how the asteroid's path would be deflected.
ESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its target Didymos binary asteroid system. In the process the spacecraft ...
The asteroid Kamo'oalewa was discovered in 2016 as part of an international effort to find asteroids that could potentially impact the Earth. It was determined that the asteroid circles the sun in ...
The space agency also has a spare pair of spacecraft that can be repurposed to study the Apophis asteroid. The Janus mission was supposed to launch in August 2022, hitching a ride to space with ...
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 ...
It gets so close that the line on NASA's trajectory map for the asteroid actually passes through Earth as it crosses the planet's orbit. Don't worry, this is a harmless space rock. An asteroid ...
Vesta emerged in the first 1 to 2 million years after the solar system formed and is now the second largest body in the asteroid belt, which sits between Mars and Jupiter. Space scientists view ...
In 2022, Gialich and Jose Acain, who has almost a decade of experience at SpaceX and NASA, founded AstroForge. Now the California-based startup is attempting to make asteroid mining a reality.
A "city-killer" asteroid has just made its closest approach to Earth since records began, sailing safely past our planet at more than eight times the average distance between Earth and the moon.