NASA will crash a spacecraft into an asteroid to practice ‘planetary defense’
The whole thing will be live streamed on NASA TV.
Tag: asteroid
Astronomers take best pictures of Kleopatra’s ‘portrait’
The huge "dog-boned" asteroid hurling through the solar system has now been imaged in unprecedented detail.
Astronomers discover the fastest orbiting asteroid
The asteroid 2021 PH27 is the closest asteroid to the Sun with a surface temperature hot enough to melt lead ...
Odds of asteroid Bennu hitting the Earth are greater than we thought. Here’s why you shouldn’t worry
... because the overall odds are still very low.
Several city- and state-sized asteroids impacted young Earth. Probably.
It's been so long since then that direct evidence simply isn't around any more.
China wants to practice deflecting an asteroid with rockets
Not everyone is thrilled, though: one such rocket recently plummeted back to Earth in uncontrolled re-entry.
A new study provides our best-yet prediction of what a metallic volcano might look like
If you like volcanoes, Earth isn't a bad place to live on. After all, our planet is quite geologically active, ...
The oldest meteorite ever found is older than the Earth itself
It's so ancient it could help us understand the building blocks of planets.
The dinosaurs may have been wiped out by a comet fragment, not an asteroid
Astronomers have proposed a novel theory that explains the demise of the dinosaurs.
Six asteroids to pass close to Earth tomorrow, says NASA
The closest one should pass around the same distance the Moon orbits at.
2020: A Year in Space
Despite the global pandemic that has brought much of the world to a grinding halt, space scientists have continued to ...
Water could be a natural byproduct of rocky planets forming — so it could be almost everywhere
This would be very helpful.
NASA’s asteroid sampling mission ran into a problem: they sampled too much asteroid
Suffering from success.
NASA makes history, harvests its first sample from an asteroid
Getting excited over a handful of dirt is sometimes very warranted.
American probe is one month away from touchdown on asteroid Bennu
Hopefully it's better at parallel parking than I am.
Meteorites might have helped create life on Earth (and beyond)
They killed the dinosaurs but might have also kicked off life as we know it.
Massive 800-million-year-old asteroid shower on Earth left dozens of huge craters on the moon
Any sign of this ancient onslaught has been erased from the surface of Earth, but the moon still has the ...
Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit at “deadliest possible” angle
During an asteroid impact, angles matter.
Playing Asteroids is No Game: Humanity’s Future Could Depend on Diverting Asteroid Impacts
It isn't hyperbole to say, the survival of our species may depend on a sucessful method of preventing an asteroid ...