Tag: Asteroid

On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully impacted Dimorphos, the natural satellite of the binary ...

In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a tiny asteroid to nudge it off its orbital course. The mission ...

View of the OSIRIS-REx Touch-and-Go-Sample-Acquisition-Mechanism (TAGSAM) head with lid removed, unveiling the bulk of asteroid Bennu sample inside. (Image credit: ...

ByRobin George AndrewsPublished February 9, 2024If you travelled back in time many millions of years, Earth would resemble the planet ...

Aubrite meteorite from asteroid 2024 BX1, photographed at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin by Laura Kranich, a Freie Universität MSc ...

The first fragment of 2024 BX1 recovered by the Natural History Museum/DLR/Freie Universtaet Berlin team. Right in the image is ...

An illustration shows the LUCY spacecraft as it heads back to Earth for a gravity assist in late 2024 (Image ...

Who doesn’t love showing off their collection of cool rocks? NASA was last week after struggling with it for a ...

Since launching its first test mission to vaporize bits of an asteroid in space, AstroForge has struggled to keep a ...

It departed our planet just over two months ago, but NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is already 16 million miles from Earth, ...