The world's first spacecraft to collect samples from the surface of an asteroid and return them to Earth, Japan's Hayabusa mission probe, is now available as a LEGO toy thanks to a homemade model ...

As part of that research, Burkey and colleagues developed a new model that simulates what a nuclear detonation’s high-energy, X-ray emissions will do to an asteroid. On paper, nuking an asteroid ...

Landing a spacecraft on a moving asteroid is no easy task ... which is based on the original LEGO model. To take a look at the kit and what scientists are predicting will happen with Rosetta ...

astronomers were able to create the best 3D model yet of the oddly shaped asteroid. SPHERE captured a series of images of Kleopatra as it rotated through the asteroid belt between 2017 and 2019.

An accurate model of Eros' shape helps the NEAR team determine the asteroid's key properties. The total space enclosed by the surface of the shape model represents the asteroid's estimated volume.

(ESO/Vernazza, Marchis et al./MISTRAL algorithm ONERA/CNRS) (CN) — A team of astronomers have captured the most detailed images to date of the asteroid Kleopatra, which has allowed them to create a 3D ...

To investigate, the researchers launched a wide-ranging study of the asteroid and the possible places on the moon it might have come from. The team began by creating a computer model to mimic the ...