NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. Watch the ...
After Hera speeds past Mars, it's onward to Didymos and its now -misshapen companion Dimorphos (thanks to the collision), ...
Like a fiery dart approaching a bullseye, the Falcon 9 first-stage booster descended vertically toward its circular target ...
A small jet engine compact enough to fit on a tabletop is helping to make the future of aviation more sustainable.
"The signatures of space weathering we have detected directly will give us a better understanding of some of the phenomena ...
Ten years ago, Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) flipped the switch on its global network of robotic telescopes. The ...
An asteroid discovered last November is in fact a solar system toddler – just 2-3 million years old, a Cornell University-led research team estimates using novel statistical calculations.
The new Dart+ trains are to be delivered in September for testing, with the first two improved accessibility and ...
ESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its target Didymos binary asteroid system. In the process the spacecraft ...
When I answered a friend’s call recently, she sailed past hello and said, “I got a cat.” She sounded worried, so I said, ...
While small asteroids keep zipping past Earth at fairly regular intervals some of the bigger ones are not that frequent. And now, US space agency NASA says that one asteroid that is as big as 280 ...