Researchers smashed an asteroid with a spacecraft. From the aftermath, they are learning how to better protect Earth.
After Hera speeds past Mars, it's onward to Didymos and its now -misshapen companion Dimorphos (thanks to the collision), ...
Attendees at an ESA conference said asteroids as large as Apophis rarely fly this close to the Earth, making it an unmissable ...
The DART mission was designed to test how slamming a spacecraft into the side of an asteroid would impact how it travels through space, and therefore if doing so could successfully deflect a space ...
Researchers at Cornell University have developed a new method for estimating the age of asteroids using dynamics, ...
During the DART mission, NASA used an uncrewed spacecraft to slam into Dimorphos at 14,000 miles per hour to see if it was possible to push a space rock off its orbit. READ MORE: NASA's DART ...
SabreSat benefits from expertise in Redwire’s European arm. The former QinetiQ Space, acquired by Redwire in 2022, is working with Thales Alenia Space on SkimSat, a VLEO platform for Earth-observation ...
Italian satellites captured a plume of debris emitted from the collision with the DART spacecraft in 2022. (File photo/NYT News Service) Launched in November 2022, this mission had contributed to ...
A Boeing spacecraft, CST-100 Starliner, descended from space beneath three parachutes in May of 2022. An airbag underneath softened the landing as the craft touched down in the White Sands ...
NASA’s experimental laser communication system, riding along with the Psyche spacecraft, has hit another milestone. The system was recently used to transmit Psyche data from over 140 million ...