The European Space Agency’s Hera mission will set off from Cape Canaveral on 7 October on a SpaceX Falcon 9…
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NASA’s DART mission – Double Asteroid Redirection Test – was humanity’s first real-world planetary defence mission. In September 2022, the DART spacecraft…
A frequent idea in sci-fi and apocalyptic films is that of an asteroid striking Earth and causing global devastation. While…
What would we do if we spotted a hazardous asteroid on a collision course with Earth? Could we deflect it…
On September 26, after a nine-month journey through the Solar System, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission impacted an asteroid called…
NASA, if your memory is good enough, sent a spacecraft to tangle with an asteroid late last year. The DART…
One of the things you don’t worry about nearly enough is the potential for an asteroid strike on planet Earth.…