Asteroids

Psyche Mission
Asteroids
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Psyche Asteroid
The Solar System
The mission team has celebrated several successes since its launch from Kennedy Space Center on Oct. 13. The latest is the operation of the spacecraft’s cameras. NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on a roll. In the eight weeks since it left Earth on Oct. 13, the orbiter has performed one successful operation after another, powering on […]
Posted December 5, 2023
Asteroids
Jupiter
Mars
Pioneer
Pioneer 10
Planets
The Solar System
This illustration made on Nov. 26, 1974, by Rick Giudice shows the Pioneer 10 spacecraft traveling through the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system. At the time, it was uncertain whether it would traverse it safely since the density of particles large enough to damage the craft was […]
Posted December 4, 2023
Asteroids
Goddard Space Flight Center
Lucy
The Solar System
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft took images of asteroid Dinkinesh, discovering that the asteroid has the first-ever contact binary pair orbiting the asteroid.
Posted November 7, 2023
DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)
Asteroids
Planetary Defense
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
Planetary Science Division
NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) will be honored with the 2024 Michael Collins Trophy for Current Achievement.
Posted November 7, 2023
Asteroids
Goddard Space Flight Center
Lucy
The Solar System
On Nov. 1, NASA’s Lucy spacecraft flew by not just its first asteroid, but its first two. The first images returned by Lucy reveal that the small main belt asteroid Dinkinesh is actually a binary pair.
Posted November 2, 2023
Lucy
Asteroids
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA)
NEO Surveyor (Near-Earth Object Surveyor Space Telescope)
NEOWISE
Planetary Defense
Trojan Asteroids
WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer)
Researchers have utilized infrared survey data to refine the asteroid’s size and surface brightness in support of the Nov. 1 encounter by NASA’s Lucy mission. NASA’s Lucy mission will soon have its first asteroid encounter as the spacecraft travels through deep space en route to Jupiter’s orbit. But before the spacecraft passes 265 miles (425 […]
Posted October 30, 2023
Science Mission Directorate
Asteroids
Planetary Defense
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
Near-Earth objects (NEOs) are asteroids and comets that orbit the Sun like the planets with orbits that come within 30 million miles of Earth’s orbit.
Posted October 17, 2023
DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test)
Asteroids
Didymos & Dimorphos
Planetary Defense
Planetary Defense Coordination Office
Planetary Science
Planetary Science Division
After 10 months flying in space, NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) – the world’s first planetary defense technology demonstration – successfully impacted its asteroid target on Monday, September 26 at 7:14 p.m. EDT. as the world’s first attempt to move an asteroid in space.
Posted October 16, 2023
Psyche Mission
Asteroids
Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC)
Missions
Psyche Asteroid
Technology Demonstration
Technology Demonstration Missions Program
The Solar System
NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is on its voyage to an asteroid of the same name, a metal-rich world that could tell us more about the formation of rocky planets. Psyche successfully launched 10:19 a.m. EDT Friday aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Integrated onto the […]
Posted October 13, 2023
Psyche Mission
Asteroids
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Psyche Asteroid
The Solar System
The spacecraft is targeting an Oct. 12 liftoff atop a Falcon Heavy rocket. Its destination, a metal-rich asteroid, may tell us more about how planets form. In less than 24 hours, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft is slated to launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. With its sights set on a mysterious asteroid of […]
Posted October 11, 2023
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