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In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. The objective was to assess whether humanity could protect Earth from cosmic threats ...

Asteroids with tiny moons may be quietly trading material across space. Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed faint streaks on the moon Dimorphos—evidence of slow “cosmic snowballs” drifting from ...

In an effort to explain how life started on Earth billions of years ago, some scientists have suggested that microbes — or perhaps the organic building blocks of life — may have hitched a ride while ...

About 15% of asteroids near Earth have small moons orbiting them, making binary asteroid systems common in our cosmic neighborhood. Now, a team of astronomers led by the University of Maryland ...

NASA estimates that over 15,000 asteroids, each large enough to destroy a city, remain undetected, leaving Earth virtually defenseless. That gap means a single late discovery could force governments ...

Scientists from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have confirmed that when the agency’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission intentionally collided with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos ...

The Open University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. Asteroids are some of the oldest objects in the Solar System: leftovers from the chaotic time when planets were ...

On September 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft crashed into a binary asteroid system. By intentionally ramming a probe into the 160-meter-wide moonlet named Dimorphos ...

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by diverting their orbits. By Katrina Miller In 2022, NASA deliberately crashed a ...