ESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its ...
DART mission successfully deflected an asteroid's path by deliberately colliding with it, but Mars may suffer unintended ...
NASA's experimental laser communication system, riding along with the Psyche spacecraft, has transmitted Psyche data from ...
NASA's proved in 2022 that humans could redirect 'city killer' asteroids away from Earth - but with unintended consequences that could put our planet in danger. A pair of Italian astronomers found ...
A test to protect Earth from asteroids unleashed a swarm of boulders—and a new study suggests that there may be some unintended consequences. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ...
In 2022, NASA intentionally smashed its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into a tiny asteroid called Dimorphos, a landmark test to see whether we could divert potentially ...
In September of 2022, NASA’s DART mission smashed into the astroid Dimorphos at 14,000 miles per hour to test the effects of asteroid deflection. Although the mission was a success, scientists ...
A NASA experiment that sent a spacecraft slamming into the side of an asteroid may have sent debris flying into space, possibly into the path of Mars. The asteroid, named Dimorphos, was hit by ...
By smashing a spacecraft into the smaller asteroid, Dimorphos, and measuring the changes to its orbit, NASA learned that we ...
In late 2021 our species launched the first space weapon against a killer asteroid. Ok, it was not exactly a space weapon, and its target was nothing more than an innocent piece of space rock ...
The Hera mission will study the Dimorphos asteroid that was pushed off course by NASA’s DART spacecraft in 2022 ...