The first-ever mission to study a metal-rich asteroid, Psyche aims to help scientists learn more about the formation of rocky ...
A spacecraft quietly speeding its way through the Solar System has caught its first glimpses of the asteroids it was sent to ...
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 ...
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 ...
"In this small system, we are seeing incredibly complex processes that are happening." Last November, when NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew past its first official asteroid target named Dinkinesh, it ...
Nearly two years after NASA's DART spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid to test a planetary defense method, scientists continue to see results from the mission showing that this plan ...
If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. It was only 5 years ago that NASA launched its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on a mission to ...
In 2022, NASA intentionally smashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into a tiny asteroid called Dimorphos, a landmark test to see whether we could divert potentially ...
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 ...
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 ...
“For the first time ever, humanity has changed the orbit of a planetary body,” Lori Glaze, NASA’s director of planetary science, said today, Oct. 11. On Sept. 26, the DART (Double Asteroid ...