In a new memoir, planetary scientist Dr. Dante Lauretta takes readers behind the scenes of a mission to secure a sample from ...
NASA / Johns Hopkins APL / Steve Gribben In September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft intentionally ... after the collision, that trail of debris stretched ...
The asteroid that NASA flung a spacecraft into was deformed by the collision, but it appears to have reshaped itself and healed. The asteroid, named Dimorphos, was slammed into by NASA's Double ...
This photo provided by NASA on Jan. 22, 2024 shows a view of eight sample trays containing the final material from asteroid Bennu. NASA reported Thursday, Feb. 15, that the Osiris-Rex spacecraft ...
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 ...
Nearly two years after NASA's DART spacecraft intentionally ... Space Telescope showed a large debris trail or "ejecta cone" coming from the asteroid hours and days after the collision.
The Nasa spacecraft achieved its nearest approach to the sun on January 2, marking the first of seven such encounters before it reaches its asteroid target in 2029. Over the past two months ...
This image from a video animation provided by NASA in October 2023 depicts the spacecraft Psyche approaching the asteroid Psyche. A NASA spacecraft has rocketed away on a six-year journey to a ...
CNN — (CNN) — When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft intentionally slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in September 2022, the impact may have caused “global deformation ...
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 ...
Launched in October 2021, NASA's Lucy probe ... between March 25 and 27, the spacecraft was over 530 million kilometers (330 million miles) from some of its asteroid targets.