"With these probability maps, we can push asteroids away while preventing them from returning on an impact trajectory, ...
Companies are getting in on the ground floor of mining asteroids in space for precious minerals and important terrestrial ...
Asteroids might seem like peaceful drifters suspended in space, but they’re really disturbed, spinning and tumbling in ...
Several asteroids will pass by Earth in the next few days, some of them getting shockingly close in astronomical terms. … ...
Hera, a European spacecraft, is halfway to the Didymos asteroid system to study the impact of NASA’s DART mission.
A UCLA astronomer who leads planetary defense missions for NASA says avoiding asteroid impacts is “a problem we can ...
Siddharth Patel, 12, is a night sky enthusiast whose latest discovery is putting him on the world stage. Patel is now one of ...
On its way to Didymos and Dimorphos, Hera has found time to test its cameras in preparation for the big moment. The Hera mission to follow-up on the aftermath of NASA's DART asteroid crash has caught ...
On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...
To keep solar power stations from getting lazy, Sandia National Laboratories scientist John Sandusky is looking to give heliostat mirrors a side hustle. At the National Solar Thermal Test Facility ...