Scientists have unveiled three concepts for tiny spacecraft that could voyage from Earth to meet Apophis in April 2029.
Scientists have calculated the rotational speed of asteroid 2024 BX1, which exploded over Berlin earlier this year, by ...
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid probe is now in a holding pattern after a lengthy mission ...
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Nasa scientists cheered as their spacecraft, Osiris-Rex, successfully touched down on Asteroid Bennu to collect rocks and dirt from the surface, to bring back to Earth. The meticulously planned ...
No? Well then you’re in luck, because NASA is just a few hours from intentionally smashing a probe into the minor planet Dimorphos as part of Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ...
Bennu’s surface is absolutely packed with debris, posing a challenge for NASA’s team that still has to decide where to have the probe touch down on the asteroid to collect samples. Now ...
In 2022, NASA intentionally smashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into a tiny ... off its trajectory ...
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I cover aerospace, astronomy and host The Cosmic Controversy Podcast. With last week’s successful launch of NASA’s mission to Psyche ...
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 ...
By early 2025, the spacecraft is expected to drop ... after the observations were made to characterize asteroid Dinkinesh in support of NASA’s Lucy mission before its October 2023 encounter.
24: a capsule of asteroid samples In 2020, a NASA spacecraft swooped in on Bennu ... The Orionids meteor shower After hitting the outbound trail of Halley’s comet in May, Earth every October ...