For the first time, humanity has proved it can deliberately shove a small world off course. NASA’s Double Asteroid ...
NASA, the internationally recognized space authority, has a history of maintaining a certain level of confidentiality, particularly concerning potentially catastrophic asteroid encounters. This ...
The widely studied metallic asteroid known as 16 Psyche was long thought to be the exposed iron core of a small planet that failed to form during the earliest days of the solar system. But new ...
Designed to explore a metal asteroid that could be the heart of a planet, the Psyche mission is readying for a 2022 launch. After extensive review, NASA Headquarters in Washington has approved the ...