Space NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission Returns Samples From the Bennu Asteroid This Week The return of these samples is eagerly awaited by the scientific community, as they promise critical insights into the early solar system's formation and the origins of life. These findings could also enhance our understanding of potential asteroid threats to Earth.
Space NASA to Send Its Psyche Mission to a Golden Asteroid Worth $10,000 Quadrillion Scheduled for launch on October 5, 2023, atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, the Psyche spacecraft will provide planetary scientists with an unprecedented opportunity to study an iron core similar to the Earth's center.
Space Hubble Space Telescope Captures Aftermath of NASA's DART Asteroid Impact The newly released movie begins roughly 1.3 hours before the DART impact, then shows the system of two asteroids two hours after the event, with debris moving at speeds fast enough to overcome the gravitational pull of the asteroid system.
Space Astronomers Discover a Huge Planet Killer Asteroid Over time, the movement of this asteroid will sync with that of the Earth, and it will cross much closer by, but it will happen centuries into the future. Any asteroid over 1km in size is considered a planet killer and enough to trigger a mass extinction event on Earth.
Space NASA's DART Spacecraft Successfully Changed the Orbit of an Asteroid The goal of DART was to change the orbit of Dimorphos around the larger asteroid by at least 73 seconds, although scientists had hoped the effect would be more like 10 minutes. This minimum benchmark has been exceeded by more than 25 times.
Space Two Large Asteroids Will Fly Past Earth This Weekend Two large asteroids the size of a multi-story building will brush past our planet later this week. According to NASA, the space bodies will approach the Earth on July 29 and 30.
Space Amateur Scientists Discovered More Than 1,000 New Asteroids For the project, 11,482 citizen science volunteers have processed thousands of images taken by different cameras of the Hubble telescope from 2002 to 2021.
Space China Announced Plans for an Asteroid-Deflecting Mission China plans to launch a mission to alter the trajectory of a potentially dangerous asteroid. The test launch is scheduled for 2025-2026 as part of a larger all-planetary defense program.
