ESA's Hera asteroid mission for planetary defense will make a swingby of Mars next March, borrowing speed to help reach its ...
The Winchcombe meteorite, which fell to the ground in Gloucestershire in the U.K. after blazing a trail through the night sky ...
A NASA experiment that sent a spacecraft slamming into the side of an asteroid may have sent debris ... Solar eclipse to see citizen scientists probe upper atmosphere According to the paper ...
NASA's Parker Solar probe didn't quite fly into the Sun, but it did the next best thing. In 2021, the probe barrelled straight through the heart of a huge coronal mass ejection — and survived ...
NASA engineers pinpointed the cause behind the mission’s odd anomaly, and think they can help the interstellar probe make sense again. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory believe the ...
The astronomers warned that if NASA needs to knock a killer asteroid off its collision course with Earth in the future it will be crucial to consider where the debris from such a spectacular ...
In September of 2022, NASA’s DART mission smashed into the astroid Dimorphos at 14,000 miles per hour to test the effects of asteroid deflection. Although the mission was a success, scientists ...
A NASA solar probe flew straight through a powerful eruption from the sun, and in doing so, found a key clue to how solar storms form. During the event, the Parker Solar Probe managed to capture ...
NASA's Lucy mission flyby asteroid Dinkinesh (aka 1999 VD57). The spacecraft will zip by the Main Belt asteroid at 10,000 mph (16,093 kmh). Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Produced ...
A Nasa mission that knocked an asteroid off course in 2022 to test methods for defending Earth created debris that scientists now believe could become meteorites that will punch craters in Mars.