An asteroid estimated to be a kilometer (3,451 feet) wide will fly by Earth on January 18. The video in the media player above is from a related report. It will pass within 1.2 million miles of our ...
CHICAGO -- A NASA spacecraft has intentionally slammed into an asteroid in humanity's first test of planetary defense. The impact occurred at 7:15 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in ...
In its preliminary data release, taken from just seven nights of observations, the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory has ...
The ESA’s autonomous Hera mission is going through preflight testing before it has to navigate the real Didymos asteroid system. The ESA’s autonomous Hera mission is going through preflight testing ...
On its way the pair of near-Earth asteroids, Hera will swing by Mars in 2025 to help propel the spacecraft forward to its destination. During the gravity assist, Hera will perform a survey of the ...
Rocks knocked off Dimorphos could come back to bite us in a few years—in the form of harmless meteors. Reading time 2 minutes In September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully ...
Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...