NASA slammed a spaceship into an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza in an attempt to alter its course. The ...

There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...

How does a planetary defense mission intended to push an asteroid off course manage to release a torrent of boulders with the same momentum as the spacecraft? NASA’s groundbreaking experiment, the ...

Dubbed 3I/ATLAS, it is blazing through our cosmic cul-de-sac at truly awe-inspiring speeds between the main asteroid belt and ...

Importantly, NASA says Dimorphos is not in fact hurtling toward Earth. It describes the asteroid moonlet as a small body just 530 feet in diameter that orbits a larger, 2,560-foot asteroid called ...

Mission control rooms rarely celebrate crash landings. But the collision of NASA’s DART spacecraft with an asteroid was a smashing success. At about 7:15 p.m. EDT on September 26, the spacecraft ...

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NASA retrieves material from asteroid 200 million miles away 00:24. A saucer-shaped capsule carrying asteroid fragments that may hold clues about the birth of the solar system slammed into Earth's ...

In September 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully demonstrated how a fast-moving spacecraft could change an asteroid’s trajectory by crashing into it, potentially ...

NASA Devised a Wild Plot to Capture an Asteroid and Save Humanity. ... components of the student-designed Regolith X-ray Imaging Spectrometer ... “The asteroid didn’t cooperate,” says Dworkin.

NASA shuts down asteroid-hunting telescope, ... NASA decommissioned a nearly 15-year-old spacecraft that discovered 400 near-Earth ... and Teledyne Imaging Sensors is producing camera chips for ...