NASA's Plan For Detecting Potentially Threatening Asteroids Is in Financial...
Welcome to Earth Efforts to detect asteroids and other near-Earth object threats remain underfunded. NASA Congress charged NASA with finding 90 percent of nearby space rocks greater than 140 meters...
View ArticleCould an Asteroid Impact Knock the Moon into the Earth?
Collision Course It would take a moon-sized object to move the moon. NASA/JPL-Caltech "If an asteroid hits the moon, it will just get another crater," says Gareth Wynn-Williams, an astronomer at the...
View ArticleWatch: Asteroid Toutatis Twirling Through Space During Earth Flyby
The three-mile-long chunk of space rock that swung past Earth early this week never got closer than a distance of about four million miles, but NASA scientists still managed to catch it on tape.On...
View ArticleCNN Anchor Wonders To Bill Nye: Is A Near-Earth Asteroid The Effect Of Global...
A huge storm lashed the Northeast this weekend, which meant we got to see news anchors talk about global warming for half a news cycle. (Yay.) But that also led to an awkward moment when CNN anchor...
View ArticleVideos: Space Rock Explodes Over Russia, Slams Into Building
Incoming! A fireball streaks across the sky on February 15, 2013, as seen from the vantage of a Russian driver's dash-mounted video camera. NEproskochil/YouTube The same day that an asteroid half the...
View ArticleCould An Asteroid Impact Knock The Moon Into Earth?
Collision Course It would take a moon-sized object to move the moon. NASA/JPL-Caltech "If an asteroid hits the moon, it will just get another crater," says Gareth Wynn-Williams, an astronomer at the...
View ArticleAsteroid With Six Tails Leaves Astronomers Dumbfounded
Asteroid P/2013 P5 NASA, ESA, and D. Jewitt (UCLA) Weird things are afoot in the asteroid belt, located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. A newly identified asteroid called P/2013 P5 is posing...
View ArticleAsteroid Named After Thomas Pynchon
Eros, a near-Earth asteroid NASA/JHU/APL In the November 20 edition of the Minor Planet Circular, 49 minor planets got new names. Many are named after fellow scientists, such as Jeffrich (Jeffrey Rich...
View ArticleWho Owns Asteroid Rights?
Concept art Robotic asteroid mining might look like this. Deep Space Industries Congress is back in session and getting right down to work on pressing science and technology issues like education...
View ArticleMulticolor Map Shows Differing Regions Of Rosetta’s Comet
Crossing State Lines Each indicated region reveals a morphologically different area of 67P. ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team On August 6, the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft arrived at Comet...
View ArticleFirst Asteroid-Like Object Discovered With Rings
Meet (10199) Chariklo. It's an asteroid-like object that's a little more than 90 miles in diameter. It orbits the sun between Jupiter and Neptune. And like its giant gas neighbors, it has rings....
View ArticleHow We're Finding Asteroids Before They Find Us
Marco Tantardini spent the year of 2010 dreaming about asteroids. A thickly bearded, 26-year-old Italian who wore a black-leather jacket and rode a motorcycle, Tantardini…
View ArticleBogus User-Generated CNN Asteroid Apocalypse Article Goes Viral
If you've watched CNN for a moderate amount of time, you've likely seen an ad for iReport, the network's user-generated news hub. Civilians suggest stories, and CNN…
View ArticleNASA's Asteroid Mission Is Dumb, Says NASA Assessment Committee
In last weekâs (fairly divisive) piece Everyone Hates NASAâs Asteroid Capture Program, we detailed the sentiments weâve heard from a number of experts who care about…
View ArticleA Volcanic Asteroid Roamed Our Solar System Billions Of Years Ago
The objects that dominated the Solar System early in its history may have been smallâ¦but they didn't lack flair. A new study has found that at least one early Solar System object -- likely hundreds...
View ArticleWho Owns Asteroid Rights?
Congress is back in session and getting right down to work on pressing science and technology issues like education funding, Net neutrality and ... oh wait. Actually, the…
View ArticleMulticolor Map Shows Differing Regions Of Rosetta’s Comet
On August 6, the European Space Agencyâs Rosetta spacecraft arrived at Comet â67P/Churyumov-Geraskimenko,â making it the first vehicle to reach and orbit an asteroid.
View ArticleA Spacecraft That Packs The Punch Of A Warhead
After a dysfunctional Hayabusa mission returned to Earth in 2003 with a measly 0.1 milligram of asteroid dust, Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) didn't give…
View ArticleESA Confirms Rosetta's Landing Site On 'Rubber Ducky' Comet
After more than 10 years of traveling through space, the Rosetta spacecraft -- the first space vehicle to travel to a comet -- is finally taking a load off. Well, part of…
View ArticleWhat NASA Should Do Instead Of An Asteroid Retrieval Mission
Criticismcontinues to grow for NASAâs Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM) -- the space agencyâs plan to capture a 10-meter-wide piece of an asteroid and bring it into…
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