After Hera speeds past Mars, it's onward to Didymos and its now -misshapen companion Dimorphos (thanks to the collision), ...
Selam may actually be younger than Lucy's namesake, the 3.2-million-year-old human ancestor discovered in Ethiopia in the 1970s.
The first-ever mission to study a metal-rich asteroid, Psyche aims to help scientists learn more about the formation of rocky ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
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, 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 ...
is from asteroid ... of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. OSIRIS-REx visited the asteroid Bennu, “booped” the space rock in 2020 and grabbed a sample of its surface material. The spacecraft dropped ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.-- A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth. The galactic slam occurred at a ...