Want more science and tech news delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for Mashable's Top Stories newsletter today. Millions of space rocks orbit the sun. They're the rocky rubble left over from the formation of the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago. Most of that ancient detritus...
NASA announced today more details in its plan for an Asteroid Redirect Mission (ARM). The decision has been made for an uncrewed solar electric-powered ARM spacecraft to rendezvous with a target asteroid, then deploy robotic arms to capture a boulder from the asteroid’s surface. The ARM cra...
The asteroid's path will be drastically altered by Earth's gravity once it zips by. Instead of circling the sun every 359 days, it will move into an oval orbit lasting 425 days, according to NASA. More from CBS News Greenland's leader says "we are not for sale" after Trump suggests...
"The asteroids that we have in our solar system today, they're left over from this earliest stage of solar system history," said University of Arizona Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta. "We're literally looking at geologic materials that formed before the Earth even existed. "I call these ...
The asteroid's path drastically will be altered by Earth's gravity once it zips by. Instead of circling the sun every 359 days, it will move into an oval orbit lasting 425 days, according to NASA. Filed Under: 2023 BU, Asteroid, NASA, near miss, South America Categories: World News Ar...
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No other single science mission has been designed to visit as many different objects independently orbiting the sun in the history of space exploration, NASA said. As well as the Trojans, Lucy will do a flyby of an asteroid in the solar system's main asteroid belt, called Donald Johanson ...
SpaceX launched NASA's planetary defense mission, Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), on a Falcon 9 rocket from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday. The mission is an attempt to understand how to deflect an asteroid off a collision course toward E...
NASA’s first asteroid samples fetched from deep space parachuted into the Utah desert Sunday to cap a seven-year journey.
A NASA spacecraft closed in on an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day a killer rock menaces Earth.