Asteroids And Their Moons Throw Dirty “Cosmic Snowballs” At Each Other
Asteroids that come in pairs constantly throw “cosmic snowballs” at each other, a new analysis of DART data…
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…
How we track and stop dangerous asteroids before they reach the Earth
On February 15, 2013, the people of Chelyabinsk, Russia, witnessed something terrifying. A six-story-tall asteroid weighing nearly 10,000…