an ESA mission helping to test and characterize asteroid deflection techniques. A successful mission to deflect or destroy 2024 YR4 was “not infeasible,” Michel says. “But it would not have ...

"In many ways, Odin has become both a pioneer and a teacher — continuing its mission by informing our future endeavors, even in silence." The first-ever private asteroid mission appears to be ...

As an asteroid mining start-up's latest mission goes awry, Josh Sims looks at how close we really are to extracting rare minerals from the many celestial bodies above us. Thirty years ago the ...

The Gaia Observatory from the European Space Agency (ESA) has now been powered down and sent into a “retirement orbit” around the sun — but data from the mission will continue to be released ...

If the asteroid’s path ends at Earth, NASA isn’t helpless, Fieber-Beyer said. For the first time in known history, NASA's DART mission in 2022 was able to deflect an asteroid with a kinetic ...

Beyond Odin, AstroForge is already eyeing an asteroid landing mission, dubbed Vestri, despite the major challenges with its current probe. "We have probably the best group of investors in the world.

Over a 12-year mission, Lucy is scheduled to visit a total of 11 asteroids across two swarms that are leading and trailing Jupiter. Still, every asteroid counts for this mission, and a new paper ...

Intuitive Machines' second Moon mission ended in disappointment Friday ... aimed to capture close-up photos of an asteroid. IM has been awarded two more lunar missions but will be reviewing ...

Intuitive Machines' IM-2 Athena lander ended up on its side on the moon, forcing a premature end to a mission packed with rovers and NASA science. Amanda Kooser Freelance writer Amanda C.

One exciting project currently happening is NASA’s Lucy mission, which is on a quest to learn more about asteroids orbiting near Jupiter known as Trojans. These asteroids are thought to be ...

Europe's HERA mission is aiming to find out how much of an impact a NASA spacecraft made when it deliberately smashed into an asteroid in 2022 in the first-ever test of our planetary defences.

AstroForge hoped to pioneer asteroid mining ... If Odin doesn’t respond soon, its mission ends before it truly began. 'Gaia’s 12-year mission ends': The space telescope that rewrote the ...