NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics ...

The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...

On May 31st, the asteroid 1998 QE2 passed within six million miles of Earth. A few weeks ago, we got a peek at some of the radar images of this unusual binary asteroid, and now additional radar images ...

Two European cubesats have communicated that they are a-ok as they hurtle toward a binary asteroid system to check out the damage inflicted by NASA's DART impactor in 2022. First, though, European ...

Scientists have discovered a new binary asteroid near Earth, one of just four equal mass binary asteroid pairs known to exist. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new ...

Upon Hera's arrival at Didymos and Dimorphos—which is slated for late 2026—the mission will perform its own "crash scene investigation," measuring the asteroid's mass and shifted orbit from up close, ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera mission is officially underway following the successful launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket on Monday morning. The mission, if successful, will provide key ...

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