How does a planetary defense mission intended to push an asteroid off course manage to release a torrent of boulders with the same momentum as the spacecraft? NASA’s groundbreaking experiment, the ...

The asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, jumped to the top of NASA's risk chart, with a slim but measurable chance of striking Earth in just seven years. Skip to content Gizmodo. Search .

The research analyzes the historical results of NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, which hit the asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, 2022, ... velocity, and size," Professor ...

The asteroid named 33 Polyhymnia is so dense that researchers theorize that it may be made up of elements not contained on the periodic table. Hotspots ranked Start the day smarter ☀️ Funniest ...

One such object is asteroid (162173) Ryugu, a 1 km-wide near-Earth asteroid believed to have originated in the asteroid belt. However, it has since moved to cross Earth's orbit, located 300 ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft, currently journeying toward Jupiter's orbit on its asteroid-hopping mission, captured an impressive close-up of its second target: the main belt asteroid 52246 Donaldjohanson.

At its widest, the asteroid measures 173 miles (280 km) across and 144 miles (232 km) long, according to NASA’s website. For scale, that's larger than the state of Connecticut.