Engineers prepare NEA Scout for integration and shipping at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Credit: NASA NASA Solar Sail Asteroid Mission Readies…
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Artist’s illustration of our solar system’s asteroid belt. Credit: NASA/McREL Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky remnants left over from the early formation of…
Credit: NYU Abu Dhabi Data collected can be used to provide new insights into the evolution of the Kuiper Belt, and the larger solar system.…
Meteor Crater, Arizona. This crater is the result of an impact of a 50m meteor, whereas the impacts described in the current work may have…
Credit: NASA NASA recently received its first sample of asteroid Ryugu, which was returned to Earth last December by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA)…
Artist’s concept of NASA’s WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spacecraft, which was an infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope active from December 2009 to February 2011. In…
In this image from 2003, retired astronaut Joan Higginbotham took a break from training for the STS-116 mission and is shown in front of a…
NEO Surveyor is a new mission proposal designed to discover and characterize most of the potentially hazardous asteroids that are near the Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech…
Using data from several instruments onboard Rosetta, CASTRA’s team has modeled the properties of cometary dust in the environment of Comet 67P. Image credit –…
This artist’s concept depicts the asteroid Psyche, the target of NASA’s Psyche mission. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU New University of Arizona research finds that the target asteroid…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security,…
Farewell Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Fires Its Engines to Head to Earth With Asteroid Sample
Farewell Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Fires Its Engines to Head to Earth With Asteroid Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center After nearly five years in space, NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification,…
The shaded regions in this image show where the (fictional) impact is most likely to occur. There is a 99% chance the impact will be…
This image sequence shows how the local surface of Bennu changed after the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft successfully performed its Touch-And-Go (TAG) sample acquisition maneuver on October…
There are a lot of things that pose a threat to our planet – climate change, natural disasters, and solar flares, for example. But one…
Using a Nuclear Blast to Deflect an Asteroid: Different Neutron Energies Enhance Asteroid Deflection
Using a Nuclear Blast to Deflect an Asteroid: Different Neutron Energies Enhance Asteroid Deflection
A standoff detonation of a nuclear device irradiates an asteroid and deposits energy at and beneath the surface. In this work, two neutron yields (50…
This artist’s concept shows the planned flight path of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft during its final flyby of asteroid Bennu, which is scheduled for April 7.…
NASA’s Psyche mission to a distant metal asteroid will carry a revolutionary Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) package. This artist’s concept shows Psyche spacecraft with…
These images represent radar observations of asteroid 99942 Apophis on March 8, 9, and 10, 2021, as it made its last close approach before its…
The near-Earth object was thought to pose a slight risk of impacting Earth in 2068, but now radar observations have ruled that out. After its…