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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 ...

Findings from the study of space dust from a distant "rubble pile" asteroid could help scientists understand how to protect ...

Additionally, missions to Apophis could serve as a test bed for new technologies and techniques in space exploration. Apophis's next near-Earth encounter in 2029 will be a valuable opportunity for ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft will add another asteroid encounter to its 4-billion-mile journey. On Nov. 1, 2023, the Southwest ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the DART mission was successful in nudging the orbit of the asteroid it targeted, the transfer of kinetic energy between a small spacecraft and a rubble pile asteroid is very small.

On Thursday, an asteroid passed by Earth in what NASA says is "one of the closest approaches by a near-Earth object ever ...

NASA's Lucy team has identified a small, as-yet unnamed asteroid in the inner main belt, designated (152830) 1999 VD57, as a potential new and useful target for the spacecraft.