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"Can humanity enjoy the benefits of both asteroid and lunar mining without compromise, or do we have to choose one at the expense of the other?" ...
Kareta says that come October, when the comet gets closer to Earth, "under dark skies ... with a big telescope and some ...
Scientists found that NASA's DART spacecraft ejected a massive barrage of boulders when it bashed into asteroid Dimorphos in ...
In 2022, NASA rammed a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if it could alter its orbital period around its parent asteroid. The mission, dubbed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), aimed to ...
In our analysis this week, we look at how NASA's proposed budget would slash the agency's science division by nearly 50%.
For only the third time in recorded history, an interstellar object has crossed into our solar system, creating quite the ...
Just the third-ever confirmed interstellar object has been detected in our solar system. Here's what we know. (Spoiler: It's ...
There are currently no known asteroids on an impact course with the planet. Still, scientists are keeping a watchful eye on ...
When NASA's DART mission crashed into the asteroid Dimorphos, the first stage of the impact saw the spacecraft's solar panels ...
When NASA’s DART spacecraft collided with a small asteroid moon in late 2022, the impact made history. It was the first ...
In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...