A New 3,200-Megapixel Camera Has Astronomers Salivating
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s key instrument is almost ready to be installed on the telescope, where it will image tens of billions of cosmic objects. ..
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s key instrument is almost ready to be installed on the telescope, where it will image tens of billions of cosmic objects. ..
Two weeks after the spacecraft collided with Dimorphos, researchers determined that it knocked the space rock 32 minutes off its old orbit. ..
NASA will soon release the results of its DART mission to find out whether crashing a probe into a space rock can deflect it. Here’s how they'll do the math. ..
The mission was designed to test whether a probe could knock a hazardous space rock away from a crash course with Earth. ..
Ten tiny satellites will be hitching a ride en route to the moon, each with scientific objectives of their own. ..
Heavenly bodies are always in motion: Pushing back the asteroid probe’s blastoff date could require a new trajectory, longer travel time, and much more ..
Mars is littered with craters made by binary asteroids. These collisions are as intriguing as they are powerful. ..
Researchers at the B612 Foundation’s Asteroid Institute developed a new tool for tracking space-rock trajectories—even with limited data. ..
This August, following tests at the launch site, the probe will voyage to the middle of the solar system to do the first detailed study of a mostly metal ..
The agency’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program provides seed funding for ideas that sound like sci-fi—but just might work. ..