Every year, over 3,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) are found by NASA's survey telescopes. With the use of more powerful and ...

Remember when NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022? Today, a different probe was successfully ...

The asteroid 16 Psyche is theorized to contain $10,000,000,000,000,000,000 worth of valuable metals, including platinum and ...

WB—is estimated to be between 240 and 525 feet across and will pass us at about twice the distance between the Earth and moon ...

A spacecraft is on its way to visit an asteroid that US space agency Nasa knocked off course in 2022. The Hera craft launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 10:52 local time (15:52BST ...

ESA's Hera spacecraft as it would look in space. Dimorphos is a small moonlet that orbits the bigger asteroid Didymos. In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos to see if it could change ...

A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, Nasa said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test. The space ...

Two tails of dust ejected from the Didymos-Dimorphos asteroid system are seen in new images from the ... [+] NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. We now know that when you throw a spacecraft at an ...

No? Well then you’re in luck, because NASA is just a few hours from intentionally smashing a probe into the minor planet Dimorphos as part of Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART ...

To provide an insight into planetary formation. Europe's Hera mission to the asteroid Dimorphos, which NASA's DART probe hit in September 2022, has arrived at its launch site in Florida ahead of ...

It will then intercept the binary as it approaches within 6.7 million miles of Earth in September 2022 ... asteroid around this size," said Tom Statler, the mission's program scientist at Nasa.