Asteroids
A Single High-Resolution Image of Dimorphos Stacked From DART’s Final Images
Here’s a sharper view of Dimorphos, the small asteroid moonlet that the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft intentionally crashed…
DART Impact Seen by Hubble and Webb
What happens when you whack a little asteroid with an even littler spacecraft? People around the world watched on the…
The First Telescope Images of DART's Impact are Starting to Arrive
The ESA just released a video that shows the DART mission impacting the double-asteroid system of Didymos and Dimorphos.
Robots Might Jump Around to Explore the Moon
LEAP (Legged Exploration of the Aristarchus Plateau) is a mission concept study, funded by ESA, to explore challenging lunar terrains…
Watch a Nicely Stabilized Video of DART Flying Past Didymos and Slamming Into Dimorphos
Here’s one of the best videos we’ve seen of the last minutes of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission…
This is the Last Thing DART saw as it Smashed Into its Asteroid Target
The first-ever planetary defense technology demonstration mission successfully conducted its mission, slamming into the surface of a distant asteroid and…
DART Sees Asteroid Didymos for the First Time. In two Weeks, it’ll Crash Into its Moon
The Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) took its first picture of the asteroid system it will collide with later this…
Asteroids are Constantly Spitting out Pebbles
Asteroids are commonly thought of as solid balls of rock and metal - a place where Bruce Willis can land…
Samples From Asteroid Ryugu Contain Bits That Came From Outside the Solar System
Long before our Sun began to form, stars were dying in our part of the galaxy. One of them exploded…
Lucy’s Solar Array is Fixed! (Mostly)
How do you fix the solar array of a spacecraft millions of miles away from the Earth hurdling through the…