NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by asteroid Dinkinesh and made a surprising discovery, a close binary! Preliminary statistics show that Dinkinesh is ~0.5 miles (790 m) wide and the binary asteroid is 0.15 ...
The first flight mission for planetary defense, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) seeks to validate a method to ...
The world’s first full-scale planetary defense test is in motion. The mission is called DART and what scientists learn from it could save humankind from a future catastrophic event. Nancy Chabot is a ...
ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency 26,463 people played the daily Crossword recently. Can you ...
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Scientists have discovered that the target asteroid of NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test ...
BLOOMSBURG — Michael Shepard, professor of geography and geosciences at Bloomsburg University, discovered a binary asteroid recently while working at the Arecibo Observatory radio telescope in Puerto ...