TEHRAN, Dec 6_European ministers in charge of the ESA space agency have approved Hera, a mission that will test whether deflection could save humanity from a rogue asteroid . During the $320 million mission, ESA and partner NASA will send a pair of spacecraft to a double- asteroid system called Didymos. NASA will first crash its DART probe into the smaller asteroid (Didymoon) at a speed of around 13,320 MPH, with the event recorded by an Italian cubesat called LICIACube. Hera will arrive later to map the impact crater and measure the asteroid 's mass.
TEHRAN, Jul 30 - Fifty years after the first landing on the Moon, scientists have combined new geochemical information to determine the Moon's age using samples from different Apollo missions.
TEHRAN, Apr 25 -NASA, FEMA and several other international partners will participate in an asteroid impact exercise at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference.
TEHRAN, Apr 18 - China plans to launch an ambitious asteroid exploration mission and has invited collaborators to put their experiments on the probes, space agency officials said Thursday.
TEHRAN, Jan 20 -"All the planets of the inner solar system, including Mars, should have seen the increase in impact flux that we're reporting," researcher Rebecca Ghent said.
TEHRAN, December 05 -Samples collected from Bennu's surface could offer clues to its origins and help scientists better understand what the early solar system was like.
TEHRAN, October 04 -Hayabusa-2, Japan's asteroid -orbiting probe, has put another miniature lander on the surface of Ryugu.
The box-shaped lander, Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout, or MASCOT, was designed by a team of engineers from Germany and France.
TEHRAN, September 12 -The very existence of Patroclus and Menoetius, a pair of Trojan asteroid s, suggests a rearrangement of the giant planets occurred within the solar system's first 100 million years.
TEHRAN, January 21 - A “potentially hazardous” asteroid , larger than the world’s tallest building, is heading towards Earth at a speed of 76,000 miles per hour.