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 ...
An asteroid is expected to come extremely close to the Earth on Thursday, skimming past us as it flies off into the cosmos. The asteroid, named 2024 GJ2, will zip past our planet at a distance of ...
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 ...
An unmanned Nasa space probe has plunged through the atmosphere of Mars and bounced down upon its rocky surface, beginning a mission to roam the Red Planet in search of evidence that it was once ...
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 ...
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 fragment of the meteorite, one of the most precious of recent years, fell onto someone's driveway in 2021. The Winchcombe meteorite, which fell to the ground in Gloucestershire in the U.K. after ...
NASA is regularly announcing new discoveries and findings. Its research is consistent, and is conducted in space aboard the International Space Station and right here on Earth. Some of NASA’s ...
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) resulted in the asteroid called Dimorphos being shattered and knocked off its original orbit, a groundbreaking mission that proved Earth has the ...
When the e-scooter company Matt Gialich used to work for had to pause production owing to a shortage of platinum, a key component for the microprocessor that translates commands from the controls ...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft swoops past first of 10 asteroids on long journey to Jupiter. (Photo credit: AP) NEW DELHI: Nasa's Lucy spacecraft, in a flyby in November made an unexpected discovery ...
A detailed analysis of the Winchcombe meteorite has found evidence that its parent asteroid was altered by water before being ...