When a vending-machine-sized spacecraft hit Dimorphos in 2022, planetary defense experts anticipated an easy test of kinetic ...

"The impact could pose some danger to equipment or astronauts on the moon, and certainly to satellites and other Earth-orbiting platforms, which are above our atmosphere." ...

The ejecta field consists of an asymmetric cone of dust that exhibits streamers and filaments, as well as over a hundred ...

When NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid moon Dimorphos in September 2022, it didn't just change the asteroid's ...

NASA's DART mission successfully altered Dimorphos' orbit, but the impact unleashed over 100 boulders, significantly boosting ...

More to our point, lunar surface ejecta can potentially be accelerated completely off of the Moon and into the space environment! With just 1/6 th (16%) of the Earth’s surface gravity, ...

In this case, the ejecta are pieces of Mars shot out from the giant, main crater cavity formed due to the asteroid's crash. Get the Space.com Newsletter. Breaking space news, ...

JWST unveils stunning ejecta and CO structures in Cassiopeia A's young supernova Observations of the youngest known core collapse supernova in the Milky Way provide insights into the conditions ...