Imaging Asteroids News Today

Los Angeles, pictured, is a focus of the upcoming MAIA mission. A partnership between NASA and the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, the mission will observe the

The two agencies are partnering on a satellite to understand the effects of different types of particle pollution on human health.

2022 was a year of many satellites - whether we watched them, they watched us, or cast their cameras to space, there was plenty to see.

On September 26 of this year, the DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft slammed into the moonlet/asteroid Dimorphos and vaporized itself into an expanding plume of atomized debris. Fifteen days prior, DART had released LICIAcube - the Light Italian CubeSat for Imaging Asteroids – which was hitchhiking along for the ride. However, LICIAcube wasn’t a…

/PRNewswire/ -- When NASAs DART spacecraft successfully hit the asteroid Dimorphos, the closest cameras that captured the impact were on LICIACube, a...

The first photos of the DART impact taken by a small “mini photographer” spacecraft called the LICIACube have been published.

For the humans behind NASAs DART mission, tonights successful impact was a moment to celebrate.

Scientists want to know if a spacecraft can deflect an asteroid for planetary defense. The asteroid poses no threat to Earth.

Spacecraft launched in November from Vandenberg SFB smashes into target

NASA will be providing a live coverage of the impact.