China plans to smash spacecraft onto asteroid in major test to protect Earth
Chinese astronomers are planning to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid by 2030 in a test of methods…
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…
What is perihelion? Here’s why Earth is closer to the Sun on January 3
At the start of the year, Earth will quietly reach a milestone in its orbit around the sun.…