NASA’s NEO Surveyor could be our last line of defense against a city-flattening asteroid (science news).
NASA’s NEO asteroid slammer Well, it looks like NASA is taking the threat of asteroids seriously! The space agency has
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According to NASA, the collision of their DART mission altered the course of the asteroid it was attempting to deflect (science news).
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) analysis of data collected over the previous two weeks confirms that the spacecraft’s kinetic
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First-ever planetary defense test conducted by NASA’s DART Mission (science news).
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully struck its asteroid target on Monday, marking the agency’s first effort to redirect
Read MoreIncorrect assessment of Apophis’s orbit? By disregarding this potentially catastrophic asteroid, NASA is taking a significant risk (science video).
In the year 2029, a massive asteroid will travel near enough to smash one of our geosynchronous satellites. Apophis will
Read MoreEarth’s 10 billion atomic bomb-blast: when an asteroid killed our planet (science news).
when the asteroid that called time on the dinosaurs smashed into the Earth, the impact set wildfires, triggered tsunamis and
Read MoreNASA’s asteroid bounty bounce (science news).
After months grappling with the rugged reality of asteroid Bennu’s surface, the team leading NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission
Read MoreApophis, the Earth-killer asteroid gets people scared.
On April 13th 2029, a scratch of light will streak across the sky getting brighter and faster. At one point
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Bering Sea meteor strike last Christmas could have destroyed New York and killed 20 million.
Last December (2018), an untracked and rather unexpected meteor exploded over the Bering Sea releasing 173 kilotons of energy, or
Read MoreNASA’s newly landed OSIRIS-REx probe discovers water on asteroid.
Recently analysed data from NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission has revealed water locked inside the
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OSIRIS-REx spacecraft says hello to Asteroid Bennu.
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at
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