The 10 latest articles on Asteroids & Planetary Defense come from 10 sources, published between Nov 11 and Nov 13.
People in these stories: Dimorphos (4), Bennu (3), Didymos (2), DART (2)
Organizations: NASA (8), European Space Agency (6), ESA (4)
Places: Earth (7), Hera (6), Dimorphos (4), Didymos (3), Europe (2), London (2)
Breaking News Lehigh Valley high school football live updates: District 11 playoff action in Week 12 NASA's Dart spacecraft deliberately slammed into little Dimorphos in 2022 to see whether such a move might help save Earth one day from a killer space rock.
Analysis 1 Science Technology Key Takeaways: Revised observations show asteroid 1998 KY26 is only about 11 metres across and rotates every 5.35 minutes—half its previously estimated size and twice as fast—raising mission-design challenges for Hayabusa2’s planned 2031 rendezvous. New thermal modeling indicates orbit-averaged temperatures…
Space Could an asteroid hit Earth in 2032? Here's what to know about the potential "city killer." Updated on: February 24, 2025 / 8:46 PM EST / CBS/AFP Add CBS News on Google An asteroid nearly the size of a football field now has roughly…
By Evan Gough - November 12, 2026 09:16 PM UTC | Astrobiology This illustration shows NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft about to gather a sample from asteroid Bennu. Scientists found amino acids and some of the building blocks of DNA in the sample. New research compares the…
News ESA’s Hera Catches a Tiny Asteroid Moonlet Peeking Out From Behind Didymos ESA's Hera spacecraft reveals a hidden asteroid moon and a remarkable equatorial ridge that could explain how the two bodies formed. Published on November 12, 2026 at 13:30 Written by…
Illustration of an asteroid near Earth, highlighting the potential stakes of planetary defense research. Credit: Shutterstock November 12, 2026Could a nuclear blast save Earth from an asteroid? Good aim will mean everything Computer simulations reveal how an asteroid’s shape could affect efforts…
Agency November 12, 2026 Read in Nepali London. Four years ago, a European spacecraft has started observing from close range the asteroid that the American space agency NASA had hit during Earth's defense test. As announced by the European Space Agency (ESA)…
Home/News In This Section Artist’s impression of Hera in orbit around Dimorphos. | Credit: ESA; Wikipedia; CC BY-SA 3.0 igo AP News reports that the European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft has begun close-range observations of Dimorphos, the asteroid NASA deliberately struck…
News Space Europe’s Hera mission is ready to double down on asteroid science Asteroid defense is the mission’s top priority, but there’s also fascinating science to be done. The Hera spacecraft’s Asteroid Framing Camera captured this black-and-white image of Didymos…
Asteroid missions and planetary defence: DART and Hera, OSIRIS-APEX, NEO Surveyor, asteroid 2024 YR4 and Apophis.
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