LUXEMBOURG (30 May 2023) — Asteroid Foundation celebrates this year’s Asteroid Day on 30 June and 1 July 2023 in Luxembourg. The programme will focus on education on asteroids and…
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test, or DART impact, successfully took place on September 26th, when the mission spacecraft hit asteroid moonlet Dimorphos—a 161.5-meter diameter asteroid. This truly historic event got…
This past June, new research by Sabina Raducan and Martin Jutzi of the University of Bern suggest a different outcome to the DART mission impact as previously suggested by scientists.…
Learning Objective: To learn about the techniques we use to explore asteroids. Overview: From the first telescopic observations to the present day’s sample return missions, astronomers and planetary scientists have…
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) mission. Credit: ESA This year many new pages will be written in the history of asteroid exploration. NASA is planning to launch no less…