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The DART spacecraft aims to collide with a small asteroid in a binary asteroid system. By colliding, scientists hope to push the asteroid slightly to change its orbit. This test will help scientists prepare planetary defence tools against any future threats caused by asteroids on collision course with Earth. Image created at FROMTBOT using materials taken fromNASA/Johns Hopkins APL.

asteroid · Cosmos · 27 Nov 2021

DART spacecraft launched and on collision course with an asteroid

The aim is to test the idea that we can push an asteroid away by bumping into it, in preparation for defence against any future asteroid hazards.

2021 PH27 is a small asteroid of just around 1 kilometer in diameter orbiting the sun within the Earth's orbit. This picture of an asteroid is only for representation.

asteroid · Cosmos · 24 Aug 2021

Astronomers Discover Rare "Interior Earth" Asteroid Zipping Around the Sun

Devadas Vivek

The asteroid, named 2021 PH27 takes just 113 Earth days to complete its orbit around the sun making it the fastest-orbiting asteroid in our solar system.

The puzzling, fascinating surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa looms large in this newly-reprocessed color view, made from images taken by NASA's Galileo spacecraft in the late 1990s. NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute.

solar system · Cosmos · 02 Dec 2019

Seeking Life on Europa, The Jovian Moon

Devadas Vivek and Sampath Amitash

Europa is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter and is a prime candidate for extra-terrestrial life.

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