The first-ever mission to study a metal-rich asteroid, Psyche aims to help scientists learn more about the formation of rocky ...
Launched in October 2021, NASA's Lucy probe ... between March 25 and 27, the spacecraft was over 530 million kilometers (330 ...
Luckily, NASA had the same idea. Which is why, in September of 2022, the space agency smashed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos to alter its trajectory. This 14,000-mph kinetic impact was ...
In 2022, the world watched with fascination as NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in a test of what kind of defense options might be available to humanity if an incoming ...
The Winchcombe meteorite, which fell to the ground in Gloucestershire in the U.K. after blazing a trail through the night sky ...
It was only 5 years ago that NASA launched its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on a mission to visit the space rock known as Bennu. Bennu is a large rocky asteroid that served as a great subject for study ...
Nearly two years after NASA's DART spacecraft intentionally ... Space Telescope showed a large debris trail or "ejecta cone" coming from the asteroid hours and days after the collision.
In 2022, NASA intentionally smashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into a tiny ... off its trajectory — leaving a massive trail of boulders, loose rock and dust in ...
A spacecraft built by Nasa is set to intentionally crash into a small asteroid as part of a planetary protection test mission. While this asteroid – named Dimorphos – poses no threat to Earth ...
WASHINGTON, March 19 (Reuters) - When NASA sent its DART spacecraft to slam into the asteroid Dimorphos in 2022, the U.S. space agency demonstrated that it was possible to change a celestial ...
NASA’s director of planetary science, said today, Oct. 11. On Sept. 26, the DART (Double Asteroid Redirect Test) spacecraft smashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the culmination of a mission ...