September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... survey. This concept evolved into the international Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) partnership, which included... mission and an ESA-led contribution named AIM (Asteroid Impact Mission). While NASA has supported DART for launch ...
April 2018
Developing Mars
...surface sites, mainly in the preserved mass of protoplanetary core asteroids with composition similar to 16 Psyche (one of the 10 most massive asteroids). Core asteroid impacts should have enriched an appreciable fraction of preserved martian craters...
24 November 2021
NASA successfully launches its DART mission
... can be measured much more easily than a change in the orbit of a single asteroid around the Sun. “We have not yet found any significant asteroid impact threat to Earth, but we continue to search for that sizable population we know is still...
23 March 2016
Could an encounter with a passing dark molecular cloud be responsible for killing off the dinosaurs?
... of the Cretaceous Period. Their analysis of the sample shows a sharp spike of iridium which corresponds to the Chicxulub asteroid impact, however, there is also a broad iridium component that spans more than 8 Myr and cannot be explained by any...
05 March 2018
Asteroid tracking program adds Google Cloud and AGI as tech partners
... algorithms that will let researchers see patterns, important in protecting Earth from potentially dangerous asteroid impacts,” added Lu. The Asteroid Institute was set up last year by B612; a virtual organisation established in 2002 that includes...
04 February 2022
NASA’s real-life “Don’t Look Up” programme
... test a technology for defending Earth against potential asteroid impacts - launched last November will deflect a known asteroid, which is not a threat to Earth, to slightly change the asteroid’s motion in a way that can be accurately measured using...
