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The discovery of an asteroid the size of a small shipping truck mere days before it passed Earth on Thursday (Jan 26), albeit ...

Scientists say the “ejecta” was largely generated by the asteroid’s recoil from being hit by a DART spacecraft in September. “The investigation team has been digging into the implications ...

Dust collected from the surface of an ancient, peanut-shaped and “potentially-hazardous” asteroid has revealed that some ...

"It's more like rush-hour around the Capitol building [in Washington, D.C.]. Everything is going around and around and then ...

Next comes ESA's Hera spacecraft which will return to the binary asteroid to perform a close-up survey of the crater left by DART, as well as measuring Dimorphos' mass and make-up, along with that ...

NASA successfully crashes DART spacecraft into asteroid 06:34 Cape Canaveral, Fla. — An asteroid the size of a delivery truck will whip past Earth on Thursday night, one of the closest such ...

The likelihood of an asteroid hitting Earth in the next hundred years is a topic of much debate among scientists. While it is ...

One of last year’s space highlights was the NASA DART mission’s collision with Dimorphos (seen right in the animation above), the small moon of the binary asteroid Didymos (seen left). The impact meas ...

The scientists acknowledged a recent NASA experiment on the matter, saying “much remains to be learned from the successful impact of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on the ...

While NASA’S successful Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) proved last year that we are capable of knocking a giant piece of space rock off its trajectory, a future scenario may need more ...

It is more similar in size to the near-Earth asteroids visited by recent space missions, including OSIRIS-REx and DART, than to previously visited main belt asteroids. The Lucy team will carry out ...