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 ...

NASA’s DART mission shifted the orbits of two asteroids

Overall, Didymos is nearly 200 times more massive than its smaller companion, which explains why shifting the larger asteroid ...

Gravitational waves reveal hidden structure of galactic centers

A new study published in Nature Astronomy indicates that the dense, star- and dark-matter–rich environments around supermassive black hole binaries pack on the order of a million solar masses into ...

AI-designed diffractive optical processors pave the way for low-power structural health monitoring

A team of researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has introduced a novel framework for monitoring ...