ESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its ...
The first-ever mission to study a metal-rich asteroid, Psyche aims to help scientists learn more about the formation of rocky ...
"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 ...
NASA said volunteers scanned 19 years' worth of images from the Hubble Telescope, using a new approach that could lead to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 2022, NASA intentionally smashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into a tiny asteroid called ...
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 ...
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 ...