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

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 ...

Elisha Sauers writes about space for Mashable, taking deep dives into NASA's moon and Mars missions, chatting up astronauts ...

NASA's DART spacecraft attempted to deflect an asteroid about the size of the Great Pyramid of Giza. New work tracking the debris has found a few fairly large surprises.

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 ...

But the collision of NASA’s DART spacecraft with an asteroid was a smashing success. ... was taken by the Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging of Asteroids from about 57 kilometers away.

Munich news, health insurance, technology, jobs and other topics for expatriates. The Eye Newspapers covers daily news and offers services for foreigners.

The potential to really open a new window into the history of our solar system when Lucy gets to the Trojan asteroids is ...

NASA has released new detailed images revealing a full-frame view of the peculiarly shaped asteroid Donaldjohanson.

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 ...