Alessandro Pajola

Scientists have analyzed images of the twin asteroids Didymos and Dimorphous taken by NASA's DART mission before it impacted the smaller space rock...

Simon Fontecchio is on a collision course with Utah Jazz teammate Jordan Clarkson as Italy battles Gilas Pilipinas in Group A in the FIBA World Cup

Recently, scientists from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission discovered that surface regeneration occurs on asteroids far more quickly than on Earth. By analyzing high-resolution images of rock fractures on asteroid Bennu taken by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, the researchers discovered that the Sun's heat frac

Earlier this year I (successfully!) defended my dissertation titled "Design of Missed Thrust Resilient Trajectories Using Expected Thrust Fraction" and have now obtained my Doctorate of Philosophy. As, could have been expected, my dissertation was on Expected Thrust Fraction (Theory of Expected thrust fraction, an application to Mars Sample Return and Solar Sailing) Dissertation Abstract  "Low-thrust…Read More

Scientists analyzing data from the DART mission in 2022 have found new evidence of how the binary asteroid system of Didymos and Dimorphos originated. The post When the DART mission struck an asteroid moon first appeared on EarthSky.

In the moments before NASA's DART spacecraft slammed into the asteroid Dimorphos in a landmark planetary defense test in 2022, it took high-resolution images...

In studying data collected from NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) mission, which in 2022 sent a spacecraft to intentionally collide with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos, the mission's science team has discovered new information on the origins of the target binary asteroid system and why the DART spacecraft was so effective in shifting Dimorphos' orbit.

Not even the basketball gods could shift the balance of power as Italy eliminates Jordan Clarkson and Gilas Pilipinas from the FIBA World Cup

Since NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) successfully impacted its target nearly five months ago, on September 26 — altering the orbit of the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos by 33 minutes — the DART team has been hard at work analyzing the data collected from the world's first planetary defen