Science Jan 25 An asteroid is coming exceedingly close to Earth, but will miss By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press
Science Oct 27 2 NASA spacecraft detect biggest meteor strikes recorded on Mars Scientists reported Thursday that last year's barrages sent seismic surface waves rippling thousands of miles across Mars, the first ever detected near the surface of another planet. By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press
Science Oct 11 WATCH: NASA says DART spacecraft successfully redirected asteroid A spacecraft that plowed into a small, harmless asteroid millions of miles away succeeded in shifting its orbit, NASA said Tuesday in announcing the results of its save-the-world test. By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press
Science Oct 04 Photo shows asteroid’s 6,000 miles long debris trail after collision with NASA spacecraft The asteroid that got smacked by a NASA spacecraft is now being trailed by thousands of miles of debris. Astronomers captured the scene millions of miles away with a telescope in Chile. By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press
Science Sep 26 NASA Dart spacecraft rams into an asteroid in defense test Scientists say the impact should have carved out a crater and hurled streams of rocks and dirt into space. Most importantly, though, scientists are hoping the collision altered the asteroid's orbit. By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press
Sep 26 WATCH: NASA’s DART spacecraft crashes into an asteroid to test defense system By Svetla Ben-Itzhak, The Conversation Crashing the 1,340-pound DART probe into the small moonlet orbiting the asteroid Didymos should redirect its trajectory – and could be a model for how to save Earth in the future. Continue reading
Nov 24 Watch 5:26 Can asteroids be veered away from Earth? New NASA spacecraft aims to find out By Miles O'Brien, Ryan Connelly Holmes NASA has launched a satellite into orbit on a mission to smash itself into an asteroid, in a test to see whether it is possible to knock a speeding space rock off course — if one were on a collision… Continue watching
Nov 24 NASA launches spacecraft to test asteroid defense plan By John Antczak, Associated Press The DART spacecraft, short for Double Asteroid Redirection Test, lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket in a $330 million project with echoes of the Bruce Willis movie “Armageddon.”… Continue reading
Oct 14 NASA set to launch a robot to explore asteroids near Jupiter By Marcia Dunn, Associated Press A plaque attached to the spacecraft includes lines from songs the Beatles wrote, along with quotes from other luminaries. From a John Lennon single: We all shine on . . . like the moon and the stars and the sun. Continue reading
Nov 27 Japan spacecraft carrying asteroid soil samples nears home By Mari Yamaguchi, Associated Press A Japanese spacecraft is nearing Earth after a yearlong journey home from a distant asteroid with soil samples and data that could provide clues to the origins of the solar system. Continue reading