Hera spacecraft launched to investigate asteroid that was deliberately hit by NASA mission
NASA's DART mission deliberately crashed into the Dimorphos asteroid in 2022 as scientists test whether space objects can be ...
The Dino-Killing Asteroid May Have Actually Been a One-Two Punch
Around the same time Chicxulub marked the end of the Age of Dinosaurs, a second smaller asteroid also crashed into Earth.
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A spaceship punched an asteroid — we’re about to learn what came next
ESA’s Hera mission will study a rock called Dimorphos, which was blasted by NASA, to work out how successful that approach ...
The Day NASA Smashed an Asteroid: What It Was Like Inside Mission Control
The author of a new book on the DART mission takes us behind the scenes of the day NASA smacked an asteroid.
Scientists Discover a Second Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid
For decades, the disappearance of dinosaurs has been tied to the Chicxulub asteroid, whose crater lies partly beneath ...
Spacecraft to launch towards knocked off course asteroid
The mission aims to re-visit the asteroid Nasa diverted when it crashed a probe into it.
Scientists Find Evidence It Wasn’t Just One Asteroid That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs
Scientists have discovered new evidence that it wasn't just one asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago.
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NASA Punched an Asteroid in 2022. Another Probe Is Now on Its Way to the Wreckage
Image captured by Italy's LICIACube just minutes after NASA's DART mission intentionally collided with asteroid Dimorphos on Sept. 26, 2022. NASA/ASA In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed ...
ESA's Hera spacecraft set for asteroid 'crime scene investigation'
Europe's Hera probe is tentatively scheduled to launch Monday on a mission to inspect the damage a NASA spacecraft made when ...
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Hera spacecraft launched to investigate asteroid that was deliberately hit by NASA mission
In September 2022, NASA's DART mission deliberately ... nudge it enough to deflect it from a direct hit with Earth. Dimorphos is a moon of a larger asteroid, Didymos - the binary asteroid chosen ...
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What Did NASA’s DART Mission Really Do To That Asteroid? We Are About To Find Out
Hera will be beginning a two-year journey past Mars and out to the asteroid belt where it will help us understand how to ...
After 66 million years, scientists discover there wasn’t just one asteroid which killed ...
A six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped out the dinosaurs and more than half of all life on ...