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In this conceptual image, a plume of smoke rises from Dimorphos as the DART mission impacts the asteroid's moon. These kinetic impacts are one way an asteroid could be deflected, but a new study suggests that nuclear bombs could also be effective. Credit: ESA Deflecting killer asteroids with nuclear weapons has long been the stuff
An image of Jupiter captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS Last week, a European space probe sped past Earth and the Moon. In the early 2030s, Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE) Mission It will be the first European probe to orbit Jupiter, but first it had to perform a key manoeuvre to facilitate its
Back to list of articles After nearly a decade of successful asteroid detection, the space telescope took its final image on July 31. An artist's rendering of NEOWISE is superimposed over the mission's first image of the asteroid. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech After 10 years and nearly 27 million images, NASA said goodbye to the Near-Earth Object
