Image captured by Italy's LICIACube just minutes after NASA's DART mission intentionally collided with asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, 2022. NASA/ASA In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed into ...
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, ...
An asteroid that fell to Earth in 2022 and exploded in a stunning green fireball above Canada was the smallest space rock ever properly measured, a new study suggests. The diminutive asteroid, which ...
Remember when NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022? Today, a different probe was successfully launched to get a close-up look at the aftermath of the collision. About the ...