NASA wants to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid, but don’t worry. Earth isn’t at risk.
[ad_1] Later this month, NASA will launch a mission to smack an asteroid into a new orbit to prepare for
Read more[ad_1] Later this month, NASA will launch a mission to smack an asteroid into a new orbit to prepare for
Read more[ad_1] At NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, Orion’s newly completed pressure vessel for the Artemis III mission is
Read more[ad_1] Teams at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida lifted the Orion spacecraft and placed it atop the Space Launch
Read more[ad_1] The Juno spacecraft captured the north pole region of Europa for the first time, from a distance. NASA officials
Read more[ad_1] NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission, or DART for short, is an ambitious project designed to test a method
Read more[ad_1] An artistic representation of NASA’s DART mission. (Image credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory) NASA is less than
Read more[ad_1] The U.S. needs to invest more in nuclear-powered spacecraft to be competitive with nations like China, experts say. During
Read more[ad_1] A few decades from now, humanity could get an up-close look at a comet blazing to life for the
Read more[ad_1] A new NASA spacecraft headed for the Trojan asteroids near Jupiter has a small issue with its solar panels,
Read more[ad_1] The idea of avoiding asteroid impacts has featured prominently in the public’s mind for decades – especially since the
Read more[ad_1] (Image credit: NASA Goddard/YouTube) The solar system is populated with asteroids as different as our planets. The main asteroid
Read more[ad_1] Mars has become something of an international playground over the past twenty years. There are currently eleven missions from
Read more[ad_1] NASA’s next asteroid-bound mission to explore the earliest days of our solar system is nearly ready to launch. The
Read more[ad_1] NASA has announced the launch date for an upcoming mission to punch an asteroid in the face with a
Read more[ad_1] When NASA’s most recent Mars lander trekked out to the Red Planet, it had historic company: two tiny cubesats,
Read more[ad_1] Mars-bound landers and rovers may not need to undergo quite such stringent cleaning procedures as they previously have before
Read more[ad_1] The European and Japanese BepiColombo spacecraft made the closest ever measurements of the magnetic field of Mercury above the
Read more[ad_1] You know the feeling …. seeing Jupiter through your own telescope. If it gives you the chills — like
Read more[ad_1] After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft is on
Read more[ad_1] NASA researchers used precision-tracking data from the agency’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to better understand movements of the potentially hazardous asteroid
Read more