In September 2022 NASA smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. Called Dimorphos, the rock is the smaller asteroid in a binary ...
A storm from the Sun can make a planet’s sky glow or a spacecraft’s computer stumble. At Mars in May 2024, it did both, just without the auroras people photographed on Earth.
Launched in 2021 on the world’s first planetary defense exercise, the Dart spacecraft deliberately plowed into Dimorphos, ...
Venus and Saturn will appear close together in the night sky Sunday, March 8. Here's how to see the conjunction from around ...
A new study shows that, not only did the agency’s 2022 DART mission shift the orbit of the moonlet Dimorphos, it also changed the path of its parent asteroid around the sun.
Mars missions, Dr. Lulu Zhao shows how solar particles threaten our tech, and how AI is learning to forecast them.
Our planet plunged into one of the most dramatic climate states in its long history, approximately 720–635 million years ago.
Astronomers produced the most complete map of the center of the Milky Way, which can provide insight into how stars and planets are formed.
Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most detailed simulation of the interior of stars and disproved a theory scientists have believed for 45 years: that stars switch their ...
New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by ...
Venus and Saturn will appear close together in the night sky Sunday, March 8. Here's how to see the conjunction from around ...
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