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." ...

How does a planetary defense mission intended to push an asteroid off course manage to release a torrent of boulders with the same momentum as the spacecraft? NASA’s groundbreaking experiment, the ...

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

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, ...

Bullseye! How DART hit an asteroid 7 million miles away 05:09. The deliberate 14,000-mph crash of a small NASA probe into the asteroid Dimorphos two weeks ago nudged the 525-foot-wide body onto a ...

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 ...