The team plans to build on their Bennu work in the future with the tracking of the Apophis asteroid, which will pass within 20,000 miles of Earth in 2029. NASA's OSIRIS-APEX spacecraft will ...
But a successful deflection would depend on a variety of factors, including when the threat was detected — the farther out, the better — and the asteroid's composition. ESA's Hera probe will ...
The European Space Agency's Hera spacecraft rocketed away on a two-year journey to the small, harmless asteroid rammed by NASA two years ago in a dress rehearsal for the day a killer space rock ...