Scientists are working hard to try to salvage a pair of spacecraft that lost their launch — and the solution might include the most notorious asteroid out there, Apophis. NASA’s Janus mission was designed to send two spacecraft past two binary asteroids, giving scientists their first close look at this category of object. The mission,... Read more
Space debris exists in huge abundance around the Earth’s outer atmosphere and beyond it. Space debris is made up of a variety of different materials, and some is the result of human exploration. Other objects come about as a result of natural collisions, like asteroids, comets, and other natural satellites. Whether manmade or not, space debris... Read more
As the South China Morning Post(Opens in a new window) (SCMP) reports, the Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning confirmed that a Long March 6A rocket had disintegrated while in orbit, but failed to explain what had caused the failure. Ning went on to say that, “As far as we know, the relevant incident will... Read more
When NASA deliberately crashed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid Monday, the daring but doomed probe was sending back incredible images. But on impact, the screen faded to black. We couldn’t see just how big of a dent that DART made. Fortunately, many telescopes around the world were tracking the asteroid pair known as Didymos... Read more
The collision happened 7 million miles away from our planet, and the technology could someday be used to save humanity in an “Armageddon” situation, according to NASA. The mission has been in the making for years. A man-made spacecraft, the size of a vending machine, launched last year by NASA, finally hit an asteroid, known... Read more
The galactic slam occurred at a harmless asteroid 7 million miles (11.3 million kilometers) away, with the spacecraft named DART plowing into the space rock at 14,000 mph (22,500 kph). Scientists expected the impact to carve out a crater, hurl streams of rocks and dirt into space and, most importantly, alter the asteroid’s orbit. Telescopes... Read more
When NASA deliberately crashed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid on Monday, the daring but doomed probe was sending back some pretty incredible images — but on impact, the screen faded to black. We couldn’t see just how big of a dent DART made. Fortunately, many telescopes around the world were tracking the asteroid pair... Read more
Tech giant Google took it upon itself to launch its own type of celebration following NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully crashing into an asteroid on Monday evening. If you Google “NASA DART” or “NASA DART mission” it will trigger an animation featuring a spacecraft hitting the “News” tab and knocking your search... Read more
Team members are celebrating the successful impact of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), which slammed into an asteroid called Dimorphos tonight (Sept. 26) at 7:14 p.m. EDT (2314 GMT) as planned. The mission was designed to evaluate a potential method of planetary defense so that, if astronomers ever spot a large asteroid that might... Read more
The impact occurred at 7:14 p.m. ET greeted by cheers from the mission team in Laurel, Maryland. The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, launched 10 months ago. While the asteroid, Dimorphos, was not at risk of impacting Earth, this demonstration could determine how to deflect space rocks that could pose a threat... Read more
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