Advances in tech and design are behind this flurry of asteroid missions, as well as the growing interest in asteroids and the danger they pose to Earth.
DART probe, the size of a car, will slam into the Dimorphos ‘moonlet’ at more than 24,000 kilometres per an hour in an attempt to knock it off course.
The historic DART mission is set to launch late Tuesday.
Occasionally, as various orbiters make their rounds of Mars, they spot their ground-based friends far below.
Billions of years ago, the view from the edge of Jezero crater would have been “spectacular.”
People across Suffolk reported seeing a strange glowing triangle in the sky last night, with many jumping to the conclusion that it was a UFO.
NASA announced Tuesday that the agency’s human spaceflight division will split into two new mission directorates, one focused on space operations and another on deep space exploration, returning to the organizational structure of a decade ago.
Mars Rover Perseverance’s CO2-splitting MOXIE device draws the eye of the world’s biggest miners.
Source: CBS News Scientists studying early galaxies were stunned earlier this year when they discovered six massive galaxies that seem to have died during the universe’s most active period of star birth. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spied the six galaxies, which appeared to have run out of the cold hydrogen gas needed to make stars
Drilling in the dee-ee-eep. The ExoMars rover’s Earth-dwelling twin shows off its skills.
