Travelling through the asteroid belt, the European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft has taken its first images of asteroids. The spacecraft is heading toward asteroid 65803 Didymos and its companion Dimorphos, on a mission to study the results of an intentional collision between NASA’s DART spacecraft and Dimorphos. The new images validate Hera’s capabilities to lock its cameras onto a faint target to guide itself towards its destination.
This week, China launched a near-Earth asteroid sample return mission amongst several other missions. Meanwhile,…
The Chinese space program is preparing to join the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and…
Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955…
The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Hera mission, which is traveling to asteroid Didymos and its…
The United Launch Alliance (ULA) has launched its Vulcan Centaur rocket for the second time.…
Astronomers have found more than 350 possible moons around asteroids by analyzing data from the…
Using samples collected by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) asteroid explorer Hayabusa2, scientists have found…
On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft slammed into the side…
NASA and SpaceX teams launched the agency’s Psyche mission to metallic asteroid 16 Psyche from…
On Oct. 12, 2023, NASA’s Psyche mission and spacecraft will launch out into the asteroid…
In the morning hours of Sept. 24, a small capsule containing surface samples from asteroid…
A tiny instrument that can measure the gravity levels of an asteroid has completed its…
Using the joint NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, a group of astronomers has directly imaged…
NASA and Johns Hopkins teams have successfully tested the world’s first dedicated planetary defense mission:…
Recently analyzed data from an asteroid surface-sample collection performed by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed…
SpaceX has launched NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirect Test) mission onboard a Falcon 9 rocket.…
Comets are famous for their expansive, colorful, and stunning tails of gas, ice, rock, and…
Hayabusa2’s sample return capsule has landed in Woomera, Australia, today, 5 December — or 6…
OSIRIS-REx — an international sample-return mission led by NASA and joined by science team members…
