Spacecraft's impact changed asteroid's orbit around the sun in a save-the-Earth test, study finds

A new study has found that an asteroid NASA used for target practice a few years ago was nudged into a slightly different ...

Asteroid-Smashing NASA Mission Sped Up Space Rocks’ Journey Around the Sun

New data about the DART spacecraft’s effects adds evidence that Earth could be defended from future deadly asteroids by ...
The Stanford Daily

Making the invisible visible: How CrashCourse is changing concussion education

A Stanford class helped build CrashCourse, an education program that is now transforming concussion reporting culture on a national scale.

Did NASA just move an asteroid around the Sun? New findings from the DART mission surprise scientists

When NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid in 2022, the event sounded like something out of a science fiction film. The mission, cal.
Live Science

Science news this week: Cannibal orcas in Russia, oracle bones that reveal climate disaster in ancient China, humming black holes and a barefoot volcanologist

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

To Help Save Wildlife, Ecologists Learn A.I. Skills at the National Zoo’s Science Campus

In a unique class hosted at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, early-career ecologists learned to apply emerging ...

“At First, We Thought Something Was Wrong” – NASA DART Mission Reveals a Cosmic Snowball Fight

Images from NASA’s DART mission revealed the first direct evidence that asteroids in a binary system can exchange rocks and dust. Slow moving debris from the asteroid Didymos appears to have struck ...