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ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European ...
NASA has selected SpaceX to launch its NEO Surveyor spacecraft, which will hunt for asteroids and comets that could pose a ...
Scientists across the world, including some in Arizona, are keeping an eye on an asteroid that has a very slim chance of ...
It sent a rocket to strike an asteroid named Dimorphos, orbiting a much larger asteroid named Didymos, a target at a distance equal to the size of a single atom held at arm’s length. “It was tiny, and ...
There has been a lot of talk about the collision options of asteroid 2024 YR4 and with the growing possibility of it ...
Artist's conception of the DART spacecraft approaching the Didymos asteroid system before deflecting the Dimorphos moonlet ...
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YR4 has reached the highest risk of impact yet, according to both NASA and the European Space Agency, with the agencies ...
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IF you’ve got any plans for December 22, 2032, you might want to bring them forward. Because the chance of an ­asteroid the size of a football pitch hitting Earth on that date has just doubled. If ...