Featured in asteroidBYTeam MightyJan 6, 2023ShareNASA now has the ability to defend Earth from an off-course asteroid or cometIf you were a moviegoer in the 1990s, it was clear that the Soviet Union was no longer a threat to the American people. With no threats to America’s total… BYTeam MightyJan 6, 2023ShareBYMiguel OrtizSep 28, 2022ShareWATCH: NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in a planetary defense testIt sounds like something out of science-fiction, but it’s very real. In 2021, NASA launched its Double Action Redirection Test from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California and sent it on… BYMiguel OrtizSep 28, 2022ShareBYBusiness InsiderApr 29, 2020ShareDon’t miss the Geminids meteor shower this weekendThe Geminids meteor shower peaks on Friday night, and for the first time ever, a spacecraft has spotted the asteroid dust that makes those shooting stars. Since NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched in August 2018, it has rocketed around the sun… BYBusiness InsiderApr 29, 2020ShareBYNASAApr 29, 2020ShareThese technologies will help return astronauts to the MoonRobotically surveying lunar craters in record time and mining resources in space could help NASA establish a sustained human presence at the Moon – part of the agency’s broader Moon to Mars exploration approach. Two mission concepts to explore th… BYNASAApr 29, 2020ShareBYBusiness InsiderApr 29, 2020ShareScientists have discovered a mysterious lump on the moon’s far sideThe far side of the moon is hiding a colossal secret beneath its airless, pockmarked surface. No one is quite sure what it is — the most precise wording researchers can muster is a “large excess of mass.” The feature lurks dozens of … BYBusiness InsiderApr 29, 2020ShareBYBusiness InsiderApr 29, 2020ShareNASA warns Meteor strikes aren’t just Hollywood fictionNASA’s administrator warned that the threat of a meteor crashing into Earth is bigger than we might think. Jim Bridenstine told the International Academy of Astronautics’ Planetary Defense Conference on Monday that “the reason it’s importa… BYBusiness InsiderApr 29, 2020ShareBYNASAApr 29, 2020ShareThis near-Earth asteroid reveals some ‘big surprises’A NASA spacecraft that will return a sample of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu to Earth in 2023 made the first-ever close-… BYNASAApr 29, 2020Share
BYTeam MightyJan 6, 2023ShareNASA now has the ability to defend Earth from an off-course asteroid or cometIf you were a moviegoer in the 1990s, it was clear that the Soviet Union was no longer a threat to the American people. With no threats to America’s total… BYTeam MightyJan 6, 2023Share
BYMiguel OrtizSep 28, 2022ShareWATCH: NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in a planetary defense testIt sounds like something out of science-fiction, but it’s very real. In 2021, NASA launched its Double Action Redirection Test from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California and sent it on… BYMiguel OrtizSep 28, 2022Share
BYBusiness InsiderApr 29, 2020ShareDon’t miss the Geminids meteor shower this weekendThe Geminids meteor shower peaks on Friday night, and for the first time ever, a spacecraft has spotted the asteroid dust that makes those shooting stars. Since NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launched in August 2018, it has rocketed around the sun… BYBusiness InsiderApr 29, 2020Share
BYNASAApr 29, 2020ShareThese technologies will help return astronauts to the MoonRobotically surveying lunar craters in record time and mining resources in space could help NASA establish a sustained human presence at the Moon – part of the agency’s broader Moon to Mars exploration approach. Two mission concepts to explore th… BYNASAApr 29, 2020Share
BYBusiness InsiderApr 29, 2020ShareScientists have discovered a mysterious lump on the moon’s far sideThe far side of the moon is hiding a colossal secret beneath its airless, pockmarked surface. No one is quite sure what it is — the most precise wording researchers can muster is a “large excess of mass.” The feature lurks dozens of … BYBusiness InsiderApr 29, 2020Share
BYBusiness InsiderApr 29, 2020ShareNASA warns Meteor strikes aren’t just Hollywood fictionNASA’s administrator warned that the threat of a meteor crashing into Earth is bigger than we might think. Jim Bridenstine told the International Academy of Astronautics’ Planetary Defense Conference on Monday that “the reason it’s importa… BYBusiness InsiderApr 29, 2020Share
BYNASAApr 29, 2020ShareThis near-Earth asteroid reveals some ‘big surprises’A NASA spacecraft that will return a sample of a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu to Earth in 2023 made the first-ever close-… BYNASAApr 29, 2020Share
