Scientists Not Happy With NASA’s Plan to Alter Deep Space Mission
It took nearly 15 years for NASA’s New Horizons mission to reach the point where it is at today, around 50 times farther from the Sun than is Earth. From…
China Will Smash a Spacecraft Into This Near-Earth Asteroid in Planetary Defense Test
China has selected a small, near-Earth asteroid as the target for an upcoming mission that will help it prepare against future threats of incoming space rocks. Astronomers Could Soon Get…
Hubble Telescope Releases Stunning Timelapse of DART Asteroid Impact
In September 2022, NASA deliberately crashed its DART spacecraft into a small asteroid some 6.8 million miles from Earth, in an attempt to redirect its trajectory as a test-run for…
NASA Images a Weirdly Long Asteroid
Six radar observations made of an asteroid swinging by our planet have revealed an unusually oblong space rock. The object is three times as long as it is wide—an irregular…