NASA's DART mission in 2022 dramatically altered an asteroid's orbit, potentially sending debris toward Earth and Mars, ...
Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya stayed in orbit for just 12 days, coming home in April aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft with NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara. Soyuz MS-24 launched in September 2023, carrying O ...
Comets are often described as "dirty snowballs." They are made up of ice, dust, and rocky materials. When a comet approaches the sun, the heat causes its ice to vaporise, creating a glowing coma (a ...