The MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) monitored asteroid Dimorphos post-NASA DART impact. See the evolution ...
See asteroid Dimorphous, pre- and post-impact, in this time-lapse of Hubble Space Telescope imagery. The space rock was ...
Physicists at the University of Oxford have contributed to a new study which has found that iron-rich asteroids can tolerate ...
The chances of a devastating asteroid impact briefly spiked in 2025, after astronomers discovered a building-sized asteroid hurtling towards Earth. The asteroid, named 2024 YR4, was first detected by ...
The photos gave scientists the data they needed to calculate how much material was blasted away from the asteroid and how the collision changed its motion. The Science of the Impact When DART struck, ...