DART Impact Aftermath: Hubble Sees Boulders Escaping From Asteroid Dimorphos
The 2022 DART mission impact rattled the asteroid’s surface Sorry Chicken Little, the sky is not falling — at least not yet. Wayward asteroids present…
The 2022 DART mission impact rattled the asteroid’s surface Sorry Chicken Little, the sky is not falling — at least not yet. Wayward asteroids present…
Ahead of the first asteroid sample collected by the U.S. arriving on Earth in September, media are invited on Monday, July 24, to meet mission…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx is set to return samples from asteroid Bennu to Earth. These 4.5 billion-year-old samples will help scientists understand planet formation and life’s genesis,…
Review Board: NASA-JPL Psyche Progress Outstanding, Launch on Track An independent review board praised the “world-class” efforts of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech in…
Professor Tomonori Totani from the University of Tokyo posits that cosmic dust, particularly grains measuring about 1 micrometer, could carry signs of extraterrestrial life to…
Anyone with an internet connection can now join University of Arizona researchers as they work to discover asteroids hurtling through our solar system. Anyone can…
The SOHO observatory has challenged previous theories about Phaethon, a ‘rock comet’ linked to the Geminid meteor shower, by suggesting that its brightness and tail…
Scientists discovered that asteroid Phaethon, the source of the Geminid meteor shower, has a tail made of sodium, not dust. This finding challenges 14 years…
NASA’s Lucy mission captured its first views of four Jupiter Trojan asteroids, with observations helping to choose exposure times for close-up observations. Lucy is on…
The 8th IAA Planetary Defense Conference was held in Vienna to discuss efforts focused on addressing the asteroid impact hazard. Participants shared their knowledge and…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is cruising back to Earth with a sample it collected from the rocky surface of asteroid Bennu. When its sample capsule parachutes…
Imperial College London researchers have discovered the probable distant origin of Earth’s volatile chemicals, some of which form the building blocks of life, through the…
2017 comet’s unusual acceleration explained by hydrogen outgassing from ice. In 2017, a mysterious comet dubbed ‘Oumuamua fired the imaginations of scientists and the public…
Small planets are believed to have originated from the edges of our Solar System. Astronomers have made a groundbreaking discovery with the help of new…
Samples from the asteroid Ryugu collected by the Hayabusa2 mission contain nitrogenous organic compounds, including the nucleobase uracil, which is a part of RNA. Researchers…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured a series of photos of rapid changes to the asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by a 545-kilogram…
Never-Before-Seen Spacecraft Collision Yields Unexpected Surprises In 2022 NASA embarked on a bold experiment to see if they could change an asteroid’s velocity by smacking…
This movie captures the breakup of the asteroid Dimorphos when it was deliberately hit by NASA’s 545-kilogram Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission spacecraft on…