NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test: First Planetary Defense Mission Target Gets a New Name
Nearly two decades ago, a near-Earth asteroid was discovered to have a moon, and the binary system was given the name “Didymos” — Greek for…
Nearly two decades ago, a near-Earth asteroid was discovered to have a moon, and the binary system was given the name “Didymos” — Greek for…
These two Hubble Space Telescope images of comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), taken on April 20 and 23, 2020, provide the sharpest views yet of the…
Planetary defense researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) continue to validate their ability to accurately simulate how they might deflect an Earth-bound asteroid in…
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – NASA’s first mission to demonstrate a planetary defense technique – will get one chance to hit its target,…
NASA’s efforts to better understand asteroid impacts has found unexpected support from a new satellite sensor designed to detect lightning. New research published in the…
Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass safely by Earth on September 1, 2017, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles. The large…