For the first time, humanity has proved it can deliberately shove a small world off course. NASA’s Double Asteroid ...
The asteroid Dimorphos, left, is shown with its larger companion Didymos in space as it blasts dust and boulders in a lopsided debris cone following the NASA DART mission on Sept. 26, 2022. Credit: ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have discovered that the target asteroid of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...
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(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) David Barnhart, University of Southern California (THE CONVERSATION) In a world first, ...
The asteroid Bennu carries a small but very real chance of slamming into Earth in the next few centuries, with one particular ...
These images, showing ejecta around the impacted near-Earth asteroids, were taken during the approach (with Didymos to the upper left) and departure (Didymos to the upper right) of DART's companion ...
A spacecraft named Dart will zero in on the asteroid Monday, intent on slamming it head-on at 14,000 mph. The impact should be just enough to nudge the asteroid into a slightly tighter orbit around ...