Planetary science

NASA reported a historic success for space science. The agency broke the news that it was the first time in the history of space exploration that an asteroid had been deflected.

This happened after the agency sent a probe named DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) to the asteroid Dimorphos.

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.

The space agency attempted the test two weeks ago to see if in the future a killer rock could be nudged out of Earth's way.

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The months-old James Webb Space Telescope has added another major scientific discovery to its growing list: Detecting for the first time signs of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet outside our solar system.

The world's newest and biggest space telescope is showing Jupiter as never before, auroras and all.

Scientists released the shots on Aug. 22 of the solar system's biggest planet.

Experts are concerned that we could be taken by surprise by a hazardous asteroid so NASA & other space agencies have launched planetary protection programs

The researchers simulated the situation around 3,000 times. In nearly 2,000 of them, 26 ended with the planets smashing into each other…

Scientists announced on July 12 they had found the crater from which the oldest known Martian meteorite was originally blasted towards Earth, a discovery that could provide clues into how our own planet was formed.

The meteorite NWA 7034, nicknamed Black Beauty, has fascinated geologists since it was discovered in the Sahara Desert in 2011.

While this is a tantalizing study, more data would be needed to verify the interpretation as an extragalactic exoplanet

The planetary defense mission is anticipated to make an impact between Sept. 26 and Oct. 2, 2022