lead investigator on the project and a radar systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. "This experiment was the first time an asteroid observation was attempted ...

"We're studying the leftover raw materials from the formation of the planets and trying to understand the history that made ...

Getting off to a ground-shaking start, NASA's $1.2 billion Psyche ... mass spectrometer to chart the asteroid's chemical composition and a radio science experiment to measure its gravitational ...

The experiment was the first to use data from NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, the first technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid impacts. In the exercise ...

The asteroid, titled 387746 (2003 MH4), is gigantic. It is 335 metres in width, approximately 1,100 feet. That's almost the ...

NASA/ASA In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a tiny asteroid to slightly nudge ... with the aim of turning a one-time, space experiment into a well-understood planetary defense ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 has been a source of consternation because it carries an uncommonly high risk of colliding into Earth. It's the most hazardous space rock detected since astronomers first ...

When it descends through the thick golden haze on Saturn’s moon Titan, NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft will find eerily familiar ...

And that's changing a lot about how we think about this problem.' That experiment was NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, also known as the DART mission. The DART spacecraft launched from ...

Astronomers have gotten a glimpse of the "city-killer" asteroid before it disappears until 2028, according to NASA. The space rock, called 2024 YR4, was previously given up to a 3.1% chance of ...