Rosetta’s 18-Minute Wake-Up, Philae’s Bounce, and DART’s First Deflection

Space is not empty. From the Asteroid Belt to the Kuiper Belt, our earliest building blocks still race around the Sun — and sometimes, straight toward us. Journey through the missions that rewrote what we know about asteroids and comets: Giotto’s perilous pass by Halley, Galileo spotting Ida’s tiny…