In national security space, “dim objects” typically refer to satellites or debris that emit little energy and are hard to see with traditional sensors. Detecting and characterizing them is already ...
Partnership brings flight-proven AI-driven guidance and control to one of commercial space’s most ambitious deep-space missions ...
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's name has been changed to OSIRIS-APEX for its new mission to asteroid Apophis. See its journey to ...
Blasting meteorite samples with CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron, the team found that the material "became stronger". That ...
Betelgeuse, a red supergiant star located in the constellation Orion, has emerged as one of the night sky's most watched ...
The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. University-Led Payloads to Land on Asteroid Apophis as Part of the World's First Commercial Deep-Space Rideshare ...
An asteroid could strike Earth one day, prompting the need for preparation and understanding. This video covers various impactful topics, including: - The historical significance of asteroids, ...
A nearly 60 meter Apollo-class near-Earth asteroid, 2024 YR4 was spotted in 2024 whose path crosses both Earth’s and the Moon ...
Bill Nye let a packed crowd at the Orange Convention Center know that it’s not a good idea to send a human on a one-way trip ...
Revised National Space Strategy could decide whether we continue on a steady path or match the ambition Europe has now embraced ...
Installation of an experiment testing asteroid material at CERN's HiRadMat facility. (Photo: Karl-Georg Schlesinger) Millions of asteroids orbit ...
Scientists have discovered the fastest-spinning asteroid sized over 0.3 miles in diameter, which is rotating about once every two minutes. Dubbed 2025 MN45, the space rock is some 2,300 feet across ...