On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test craft smashed into its target, the hazardous asteroid Dimorphos, ...
SpaceX will launch Europe's Hera spacecraft toward the asteroid Dimorphos for a post-impact evaluation on Monday (Oct. 7), and you can watch the liftoff live. Dimorphos is a moonlet of the near-Earth ...
NASA's OSIRIS-APEX mission, which was one of 19 designated to be canceled by the Trump administration, has been saved from ...
A visualization of the Lucy spacecraft, with Earth in background at right. Illustration: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - Walt Feimer, Jenny McElligott, Jonathan North, Krystofer Kim, Kel ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a chance of hitting the moon. To save it from collision, scientists are considering launching a nuclear ...