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NASA Stardust Spacecraft Officially Ends Operations

The Stardust team performed the burn to depletion because the comet hunter was literally running on fumes. The depletion maneuver command was ...

NASA simulates how the U.S. might respond to asteroid threatening ...

Asteroid moonlet Dimorphos as seen by NASA's DART spacecraft 11 seconds before the impact that shifted its path through space, in the first ...

NASA Science Live: Asteroid Close Approach - Facebook

Asteroid 1998 OR2 poses no threat to our planet, but we can still learn a lot by studying it. Don't miss a special Planetary Defense episode of ...

Comet - Wikipedia

A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun, a process called outgassing.

Apophis asteroid will not hit Earth for 100 years, Nasa says - BBC

Earthlings can breathe a sigh of relief after US space agency Nasa confirmed the planet was "safe" from a once-feared asteroid for the next ...

A long-awaited asteroid sample has landed in the US | CNN

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu to Earth Sunday, dropping the sample capsule in the Utah ...

Don't worry (too much) about asteroids hitting Earth - DW

In 2022, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission successfully crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid called Dimorphos. It ...

CONTOUR - NASA Science

An investigation found overheating during the burn caused the spacecraft to break apart. ... Two comets were selected for the primary mission flybys: 2P/Encke ( ...

Asteroid slams into Earth triggering stunning green 'fireball' above ...

The "harmless" space rock quickly burned up as predicted, creating a bright green streak across the night sky before spectacularly exploding.

Spacecraft news & latest pictures from Newsweek.com

The Rosetta probe's Philae lander arrived at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko after a decade of travel. By Jess Thomson On 11/12/24 at 9:39 AM EST.

NASA Asteroid Mission Captures Clues to Solar System's Past | TIME

Infrared sensors on the ground detected the heat signature of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft's sample-return capsule when it slammed into the ...

Stardust-NExT sees Jets and impact crater at Comet Tempel 1 and ...

NASA's Stardust space probe completed her amazing science journey on Feb. 14, 2011 by streaking past Comet Tempel 1 at 10.9 km/sec, or 24,000 ...

NASA drills freaky scenario where elusive asteroid heads towards ...

"A large asteroid impact is potentially the only natural disaster humanity has the technology to predict years in advance and take action to ...

NRL's SoloHi catches stunning views of 'Christmas comet' Leonard ...

WASHINGTON – Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory evaluate early data the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft sent back to Earth ...

Spacecraft Launches Toward Asteroid Knocked Off Course By NASA

The Hera spacecraft, launched by the European Space Agency on Monday, is on a mission to study the aftermath of NASA's 2022 test that ...

NASA says asteroid the size of 16.5 John Cenas to pass Earth on ...

Another asteroid is set to follow 2024 EK3 after its flyby of the Earth. ... space NASA WWE Rome asteroid ...

'Halloween comet' 2024: Watch it disintegrate as it approaches the sun

'Halloween comet' burns up during its flyby of the sun: Watch video ... While many dubbed it the "Halloween comet," the cosmic snowball of ice and ...

Comet's Close Encounter With Mars Yields New Insights Never ...

This composite NASA Hubble Space Telescope Image captures the positions of comet Siding Spring and Mars in a never-before-seen close passage of a comet by ...

Skyscraper-size asteroid to pass within 2 million miles of Earth ... - PBS

The harmless flyby is one of several encounters this week. Three much smaller asteroids also will harmlessly buzz Earth on Friday, no more than ...

Deep Impact | Comet Exploration & NASA Mission - Britannica

Deep Impact, a US space probe that in 2005 studied cometary structure by shooting a 370-kg (810-pound) mass into the nucleus of the comet Tempel 1.