NASA recently announced a new mission to study an asteroid that seems far more important than they’re letting on. The space agency has been careful with its wording, but the unusual level of secrecy ...
A privately built spacecraft is tumbling aimlessly in deep space, with little hope of being able to contact its home planet.
Space agencies have systems in place to spot, track, and forecast the future orbits of potentially hazardous asteroids.
A mission to survey the results of a deliberate crash between an asteroid and a NASA spacecraft has taken stunning images of ...
NASA astronaut and International Space Station commander Leroy Chiao discusses the latest track of the asteroid and how NASA is preparing.
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The asteroid Bennu is puzzling scientists, with samples from the space rock showing weirder properties than they expected. These include extremely high nitrogen levels and improbably magnetic ...
On the way to investigate the scene of a historic asteroid collision, a European spacecraft swung by Mars and captured rare ...
NASA said the probability of the asteroid hitting the Moon is currently at 0.8%. NASA, SpaceX scrub mission to pick up International Space Station astronauts March 12 (UPI) -- NASA and SpaceX on ...
On Episode 149 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss the latest space news, including a potentially hazardous asteroid, SpaceX's plans to launch and land in the Bahamas, and the ...
California startup AstroForge launched a spacecraft dubbed Odin on February 26, but the team lost communication with it ...
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to the asteroid in this orbit animation. Credit: NASA's Scientific ...