NASA’s Lucy Probe Phones Home From 49-Million-Mile Journey to Asteroid
The Lucy spacecraft is on a 12-year journey to visit eight different asteroids, and it’s almost caught up with the first space rock on its checklist. Are Fans Tired of…
What to Know About NASA’s Unprecedented Psyche Mission to a Metallic Asteroid
Wedged between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the main asteroid belt contains over 1 million rocky objects, but perhaps few of them are as intriguing as Psyche. The metal-rich…
This Nonprofit Wants to Catapult Material From Incoming Asteroids to Protect Earth
In February 2013, an asteroid about the size of a house punched its way through Earth’s atmosphere and broke apart over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia. The blast was so…