The hefty space rock 2014 TN17 is large enough to wipe out a city, but it will pose no risk to our planet when it sails by ...

A NewsNation exclusive reveals NASA’s high-tech plan to save Earth if an asteroid ever comes barreling ... will also be capable of measuring the size and composition of these fast-moving objects.

The mission’s flyby was used as a gravity assist to its final destination at the binary asteroid system Dimorphos ... s temperature as well as particle size, porosity, and roughness.

More information: Simone Marchi et al, A Pre-flyby View on the Origin of Asteroid Donaldjohanson, a Target of the NASA Lucy Mission, The Planetary Science Journal (2025). DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/adb4f4 ...

How old is asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson (DJ), which is about to be studied by NASA’s Lucy spacecraft in an upcoming flyby on April 20 ... based telescopes and instruments to analyze the size, shape ...

To read the paper “A pre-flyby view on the origin of asteroid Donaldjohanson, a target of the NASA Lucy mission,” published in the Planetary Science Journal, see: DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/adb4f4.

It follows NASA’s 2022 DART mission, which successfully altered the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos for ... km from its city-sized moon Deimos. This flyby was a great opportunity to perform ...

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The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday. By Robin George Andrews Robin George Andrews wrote ...

The main objective of the flyby was to put Hera on the correct trajectory towards the Didymos asteroid system. The trajectory of the mission did not initially incorporate the flyby past the two ...

It has now gained momentum on Mars. The asteroid probe Hera has taken a flyby of Mars and captured impressive images of Deimos, the smaller of the Red Planet's two moons. The space probe activated ...

Credit: ESA Europe's Hera mission, on its way to the Didymos–Dimorphos double asteroid system, has performed a close flyby of Mars, receiving a crucial gravitational slingshot, testing some of ...