On September 10, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft briefly fired its ACS (attitude control system) thrusters to…
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An asteroid is a small, rocky object that orbits the Sun, primarily found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, though they can be found throughout the solar system. Ranging in size from a few meters to hundreds of kilometers across, asteroids are remnants from the early formation of the solar system over 4.5 billion years ago. Studying these ancient space rocks provides valuable insights into planetary formation and the composition of the early solar system. Asteroids also draw scientific and public interest due to their potential impact risk to Earth and their promise as future targets for space missions and resource exploration.
NASA’s Lucy spacecraft provides its first glimpse of asteroid Dinkinesh. Over a span of two…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is set to return the first U.S. asteroid sample to Earth in…
ESA’s asteroid defense mission, Hera, has been successfully assembled at OHB Bremen in Germany. Hera…
ESA’s Juventas CubeSat will house the smallest space radar, JuRa, for the Hera mission, aiming…
“Behind the Spacecraft” is a series of short videos that offer glimpses of the people…
The finding of minute salt particles in an asteroid sample retrieved by the Japanese Hayabusa…
Shading Earth: An Innovative Solar Shield Tethered to an Asteroid to Combat Climate Change Earth…
The Psyche mission is speeding toward its October 5 launch date, preparing for the last…
HelioLinc3D, a next-generation asteroid discovery algorithm developed for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s upcoming sky…
Engineers and technicians at Cape Canaveral are preparing the Psyche spacecraft for liftoff, which is…
The 2022 DART Mission Impact Rattled the Asteroid’s Surface Sorry Chicken Little, the sky is…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is bringing back a sample from asteroid Bennu, set to land on…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is set to return samples from asteroid Bennu to Earth. These 4.5 billion-year-old…
Review Board: NASA-JPL Psyche Progress Outstanding, Launch on Track An independent review board praised the…
Professor Tomonori Totani from the University of Tokyo posits that cosmic dust, particularly grains measuring…
Anyone with an internet connection can now join University of Arizona researchers as they work…
The SOHO observatory has challenged previous theories about Phaethon, a ‘rock comet’ linked to the…