YR4 has just above a 1% chance of crashing into Earth in 2032, which is why astronomers and space agencies are paying ...

The one silver lining is that Dr. Rankin’s forecast is slightly less dire than current estimates, which assert that YR4 has a ...

which is a tiny moonlet asteroid orbiting the larger 2,560-foot space rock Didymos. The spacecraft is expected to enter the Didymos binary system's orbit in October 2026, when it will determine ...

The European Space Agency just launched the Hera follow-up mission to see what’s shaking with the binary asteroid system. Hera has a long journey ahead, but it took a moment to look back and ...

It will rendezvous with the binary asteroid in early 2027. We need to measure the mass of Dimorphos to measure the efficiency of the DART impact to make sure the deflection test can be ...

By smashing a spacecraft into the smaller member of the binary asteroid system Didymos, DART aims to shift an asteroid's orbit through kinetic impact. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL Carrie ...

Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky, airless remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system. Nasa releases images.

Dimorphos is a small moon 160m-wide that orbits an asteroid close to Earth called Didymos in something called a binary asteroid system. In 2022 Nasa said it successfully changed Dimorphos’s ...

But this discovery shows that there are many asteroid moons out there just waiting to be found." If confirmed, this new ...

The DART mission marked a significant milestone in planetary defense by successfully impacting the asteroid Dimorphos, which is part of the binary system (65803) Didymos. This mission aimed to ...

An asteroid has a small chance of hitting Earth less than eight years from now, and astronomers are enlisting the help of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to study it. Characterized as a ...