NASA, Earth and Asteroid
NASA scientists have released fascinating images of an asteroid that zipped past Earth this week — revealing it to be the shape of a weird tumbling snowman. The asteroid, named 2024 ON ...
A spacecraft has blasted off to investigate the scene of a cosmic crash. The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed ...
The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.
In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid to test a planetary defense system — could the impact redirect the asteroid? That was the question, and it worked. Now the ...
Earth will capture a miniature, "second moon" this week, according to NASA scientists. The new moon is actually a tiny asteroid dubbed 2024 PT5. It will start orbiting the planet in a horseshoe ...