Japanese space probe, size of a fridge, flies near asteroid in planet defence test
A Japanese space probe performed a fly-by of a near-Earth asteroid on Sunday, in a test mission for…
NASA’s Planetary Defense Test Changed Binary Asteroid’s Orbit around the Sun
New measurements show that the DART impact in 2022 not only shortened the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos…
NASA’s DART spacecraft changed a binary asteroid’s orbit around the sun, in a first for a human-made object
When NASA crashed a spacecraft into the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos in 2022, it altered both Dimorphos’ orbit around…
China designing mission to defend Earth from asteroids, top space researcher says
China is planning an advanced mission to strike an asteroid and alter its orbit with a spacecraft to…