SpaceX launches Europe’s Hera asteroid mission ahead of Hurricane Milton
The launch of another important mission, NASA's Europa Clipper, is on hold due to Hurricane Milton. Two years ago, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a small asteroid millions of miles from Earth to test a technique that could one day prove useful to deflect an object off a collision course with Earth.
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A follow-up mission to DART, Hera will travel to a binary asteroid to observe the aftermath of NASA's wildly successful ...
Astronomers have good news about potentially hazardous asteroids lurking near our planet: There aren't as many as we thought.
Near-Earth asteroids are closely monitored due to their implications for planetary defense. The team utilized ground-based ...
The space rock, named 2016 JG38, after the year it was discovered, is classed by the US space agency as a "Near Earth Object" ...
The European Space Agency’s Hera mission and two satellites are ready to survey the aftermath of NASA’s DART spacecraft, ...
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