NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted the 'moonlet' Dimorphos in the Didymos asteroid system. The Les Makes ...
The universe is filled with mysteries, and the upcoming encounter of two spacecraft with the tail of comet 3I/ATLAS offers a rare chance for scientific exploration. This article delves into the ...
The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
The unusual trajectory of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has sparked speculation that it could be an alien spacecraft.
Since its discovery on July 1, mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS have baffled the scientists with its origin and nature of tail, whether it is comet or alien probe. To solve the ...
A new development in the mysterious case of the interstellar visitor in our Solar System found it on a trajectory to ...
Didymos and Dimorphos Two decades ago, a binary system involving a near-Earth asteroid was found to have a moon orbiting it, dubbed Didymos. In Greek, Didymos means "twin," which was used to describe ...
Another window to study the interstellar comet opens around October 25. Two probes travelling towards a moon of Jupiter and ...
About a year ago, a spacecraft named Hera took off with a huge task: help us figure out how to stop an asteroid from hitting Earth. It’s now roughly halfway to the Didymos asteroid system and, so far, ...
In 2022, NASA sent the DART spacecraft to smash into a small asteroid moon called Dimorphos, aiming to prove that a collision could shift the orbit of an asteroid system. The result stunned everyone.
The DART mission achieved its goal of changing one asteroid’s orbit around another, but questions remain about why the orbit ...
Asteroid 2024 YR4 has a chance of hitting the moon. To save it from collision, scientists are considering launching a nuclear ...