The Winchcombe meteorite, which fell to the ground in Gloucestershire in the U.K. after blazing a trail through the night sky ...
However, in 2013, after conducting radar observations using the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex and the Green Bank Observatory, NASA definitively ... The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, known for ...
A NASA experiment that sent a spacecraft slamming into the side of an asteroid may have sent debris flying into space, possibly into the path of Mars. The asteroid, named Dimorphos, was hit by ...
NASA's Parker Solar probe didn't quite fly into the Sun, but it did the next best thing. In 2021, the probe barrelled straight through the heart of a huge coronal mass ejection — and survived ...
An artist’s concept of the Voyager 1 spacecraft in interstellar space. Illustration: Caltech/NASA-JPL After months of sending unusable data to mission control, there’s finally hope for the ...
READ MORE: NASA's DART spacecraft smashes into asteroid travelling at 14,000mph and 6.8 million miles from Earth The first-ever planetary defense test showed that humans could save the world from ...
Luckily, NASA had the same idea. Which is why, in September of 2022, the space agency smashed a spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos to alter its trajectory. This 14,000-mph kinetic impact was ...
Credit: U.S. Naval Research Laboratory The fastest spacecraft in our solar system has captured wild footage inside the sun's atmosphere. NASA's Parker Solar Probe — a craft flying much closer to ...
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — NASA says it's investigating whether an object that crashed into the roof of a home in southwest Florida last month came from the international space station. Workers for the ...
A Nasa mission that knocked an asteroid ... that will punch craters in Mars. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) slammed a spacecraft into Dimorphos, an asteroid 160 metres wide, at ...