If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. When you imagine an asteroid cruising through the solar system you probably think of it ...
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 flying into space, possibly into the path of Mars. The asteroid, named Dimorphos, was hit by ...
An asteroid is expected to come extremely close to the Earth on Thursday, skimming past us as it flies off into the cosmos. The asteroid, named 2024 GJ2, will zip past our planet at a distance of ...
"In this small system, we are seeing incredibly complex processes that are happening." Last November, when NASA's Lucy spacecraft flew past its first official asteroid target named Dinkinesh, it ...
NASA's proved in 2022 that humans could redirect 'city killer' asteroids away from Earth - but with unintended consequences that could put our planet in danger. A pair of Italian astronomers found ...
That was the message relieved NASA officials shared after the agency regained full contact with the Voyager 1 space probe, the most distant human-made object in the universe, scientists have ...
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 ...
An unmanned Nasa space probe has plunged through the atmosphere of Mars and bounced down upon its rocky surface, beginning a mission to roam the Red Planet in search of evidence that it was once ...
NASA is regularly announcing new discoveries and findings. Its research is consistent, and is conducted in space aboard the International Space Station and right here on Earth. Some of NASA’s ...
The successful DART mission likely made Dimorphos' shape more 'askew' and eccentric. By Laura Baisas | Published Mar 20, 2024 10:00 AM EDT The asteroid Dimorphos was captured by NASA’s DART ...
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) resulted in the asteroid called Dimorphos being shattered and knocked off its original orbit, a groundbreaking mission that proved Earth has the ...