There's a very cool experiment attached to a spacecraft on its way to a potentially metal asteroid. Late last year, NASA scientists pressed start on a highly anticipated space mission. Basically ...

When it passed through the Solar System, for example, the asteroid accelerated beyond what we would expect from gravity alone ...

A NASA experiment that sent a spacecraft slamming into the side of an asteroid may have sent debris ... Solar eclipse to see citizen scientists probe upper atmosphere According to the paper ...

An asteroid is expected to come extremely close ... or potentially hazardous objects (PHOs), and NASA is tracking around 2,350 of them. These are defined as being closer to the Earth than 4.6 ...

That was the message relieved NASA officials shared after the agency regained full contact with the Voyager 1 space probe, the most distant human-made object in the universe, scientists have ...

The findings of NASA are abundant. Here are just a few of NASA’s big discoveries from the past year. Bennu asteroid sample touches down on Earth NASA’s Perseverance rover captures dust devil A ...

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 ...

The astronomers warned that if NASA needs to knock a killer asteroid off its collision course with Earth in the future it will be crucial to consider where the debris from such a spectacular ...

The Winchcombe meteorite, which fell to the ground in Gloucestershire in the U.K. after blazing a trail through ... from the Ryugu asteroid collected by the Hayabusa 2 probe," said Leon Hicks ...

Late last year, NASA scientists pressed start on a highly anticipated space mission. Basically, they launched a spacecraft toward an asteroid that could very well be made entirely of metal ...

Late last year, NASA scientists pressed start on a highly anticipated space mission. Basically, they launched a spacecraft toward an asteroid that could very well be made entirely of metal, a ...