Asteroid Didymos
An Upcoming Asteroid Mission Will be Able to Peer 100 Meters Under the Surface
Engineers only get one shot at making a spacecraft work as intended. Or at least they only get one shot…
NASA Launches DART, to Learn how to Defend the Earth From a Future Asteroid Impact
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) just launched and will intercept a Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) in ten months!
ESA Recruits Amateur Astronomers Ahead of Hera Asteroid Mission
The European Space Agency is looking to recruit amateur astronomers to help characterize possible secondary targets for the upcoming Hera…
Europe and US are Going to Try and Deflect an Asteroid
The ESA and NASA are getting closer to mounting the AIDA mission, which will will test the effectiveness of asteroid…
ESA is Planning a Mission to the Smallest Spacerock Ever Visited: the Moon of an Asteroid
For some small minority of humans, Death By Asteroid is a desirable fate. The idea probably satisfies their wonky Doomsday…
A Mission to Deflect an Asteroid Just Moved into the Final Design and Assembly Phase
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission, which will attempt to deflect a small asteroid in 2022, recently moved into…
Scientists Urge Europe to Stick With “Armageddon”-style Asteroid Mission
At the European Planetary Science Conference in Riga this week, scientists urged Europe to remain committed to the AIDA asteroid…
European Asteroid Smasher Could Bolster Planetary Defense
Planetary Defense is a concept very few people heard of or took seriously - that is until last week’s humongous…