Illustration of the DART spacecraft with the Roll Out Solar Arrays (ROSA) extended. Each of the two ROSA arrays in 8.6 meters by 2.3 meters.…
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Is NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National…
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Nov. 23, 2021, carrying NASA’s…
Illustration of the DART spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the…
DART Animation. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL An on-orbit demonstration of asteroid deflection is a key test that NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space…
Illustration of NASA’s DART spacecraft and the Italian Space Agency’s (ASI) LICIACube prior to impact at the Didymos binary system. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins, APL/Steve Gribben…
What if an asteroid were going to hit Earth? There are no known threats to Earth, but planetary defense expert Dr. Kelly Fast says it’s…
Through imaging and spectral mapping, NASA’s Lucy mission will give scientists the first close-up view of the topography and chemical composition of the Trojan asteroids,…
An artist impression of Earth quasi-satellite Kamo`oalewa near the Earth-Moon system. Astronomers using the Large Binocular Telescope have shown that it might be a lost…
Artist’s concept of Lucy Mission. Credit: SwRI Asteroids embody the story of our solar system’s beginning. JupiterJupiter is the largest planet in the solar system…
Have burning questions about asteroids? NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government…
Illustration of the DART spacecraft. Credit: NASA Team members of NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of…
NASA’s Lucy mission, which launched on October 16, 2021, for the first reconnaissance of the Trojans, a population of primitive asteroids orbiting in tandem with…
The hydro simulation in Spheral that provided the basis for the analysis: 1 Megaton at a few meters standoff distance from a 100-meter diameter asteroid…
Two diamond shaped, rubble-pile asteroids have been observed near Earth, and were photographed by unmanned spacecrafts in 2018 and 2019. Scientists at OIST and Rutgers…
Asteroid Bennu’s remarkable terrain. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Scientists thought Bennu’s surface was like a sandy beach, abundant in fine sand and pebbles,…
Does NASAEstablished in 1958, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government that succeeded the National…
Is Planetary Defense PI in the Sky? In February of 2013, skywatchers around the world turned their attention toward asteroid 2012 DA14, a cosmic rock…
Lucy will explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids – thought to be “fossils of planet formation.” Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center SwRI’s Levison, Olkin lead…
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