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A building-sized asteroid named 2022 YS5 is making a close approach to Earth on July 17, and space agencies across the globe ...
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Astronomers at the University of Maryland found that a surprising burst of rocky debris released during the DART mission ...
Debris released from the asteroid Dimorphos during NASA's DART mission has a higher momentum and less random distribution ...
NASA’s DART impact on Dimorphos unleashed boulders with more force than expected, complicating future defences.
Earth is hit by asteroids all the time, but to avoid severe damages in the future NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to protect us. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins AP ...
The report comes on the heels of President Donald Trump’s initial budget proposal for NASA, which calls for historically large cuts to the space agency.
HOUSTON—NASA says it has remedied a drop in the pressure of the electric propulsion system fuel line aboard the Psyche spacecraft that is en route to a large, metal-rich main belt asteroid of ...
Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA.
Sensational "city killer" headlines aside, NASA and the European Space Agency reported the asteroid "has a very small chance" of Earth impact.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has an historic opportunity to closely observe the asteroid Apophis and improve our ability to defend against future asteroid threats, but government budget cuts are… ...