Two Asteroids Just Flew by Earth, Huge One Had a Moon in Tow
5 Jul 2024, 09:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / American space agency NASA revealed that it stumbled upon not one, but two asteroids that passed by Earth in late June, no danger detected
Asteroid to Hit Earth in 14 Years in New Impact Scenario, Enough Time for NASA to Save Us?
4 Jul 2024, 13:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The fifth edition of the Planetary Defense Interagency Tabletop Exercise worked on the scenario of an asteroid about to hit Earth in about 14 years
Spacecraft With Brilliant Blue Glow Trail Passes Mars, Moves Further Into Space
28 May 2024, 08:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says the xenon ion thrusters of the Psyche spacecraft are working as intended, namesake target asteroid to be reached in 2029
This Is The Asteroid Watch, a $1.2 Million Timepiece That Comes Directly From Space
13 Apr 2024, 00:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Introduced by young and ambitious watchmaker Greco-Genève in 2017 as an haute horlogerie flex, The Asteroid is made of a rough piece of meteorite
NASA People Dissecting Alien Asteroid Sample Already Found Traces of Carbon and Water
12 Oct 2023, 09:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says the Bennu asteroid sample it got last month is the "biggest carbon-rich asteroid sample ever delivered to Earth,"
114 Asteroids Came Closer to Earth Than the Moon This Year, There Are Over 30K Out There
5 Oct 2023, 08:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's September 2023 update on the number of known near-Earth asteroids reveals there are at least 31,248 of them out there
This Black Dot Is a Piece of Asteroid Heading for Earth, It Comes in a Spaceship
21 Sep 2023, 08:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just a few days are left until the OSIRIS-REx spaceship drops a capsule containing an asteroid sample, Europeans snatch it on film as it approaches
Spaceship With Asteroid Bits Is Getting Closer, NASA Preps Army of Scientists to Handle It
21 Jun 2023, 11:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The OSIRIS-REx spaceship is on track to deliver bits of asteroid Bennu to Earth this fall, NASA is making the finishing touches to handle them
NASA on Track to Launch Metal Asteroid-Hunting Spaceship in October 2023
6 Jun 2023, 13:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says it clear an independent board review, and the Psyche mission to the namesake metal asteroid is on track to depart this fall
Earth Is Diving Head-On and Blind in a Sea of Deadly Asteroids and You Didn't Even Know It
19 Apr 2023, 12:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA releases the 2023 National Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan for Near-Earth Object Hazards and Planetary Defense, details on asteroid numbers
Piece of Asteroid Heading for Utah Onboard Spacecraft Has Scientists Scrambling
28 Mar 2023, 12:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA teams across the nation are getting ready for the arrival of a piece of asteroid Bennu in September, delivered by parachute in the Utah desert
Three Weeks Warning Is All We Get From New Telescope Hunting Chelyabinsk-Sized Asteroids
17 Feb 2023, 12:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning a new asteroid hunting telescope that will be able to detect rocks as small as 20 meters (66 feet) across
“You Are Marvelous” Is the First, Unexpected Asteroid Target of the Lucy Spacecraft
14 Feb 2023, 12:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and the team handling the Lucy spacecraft gave a name to the first asteroid to be visited later this year, and it's Dinkinesh
Webb Telescope Spots 650-Foot Asteroid 62 Million Miles Away, And It Wasn’t Even Trying
7 Feb 2023, 10:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / European scientists looking at calibration data from the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a 650 feet main belt asteroid, the smallest seen by the Webb
Lucy Spacecraft Will Detour to Check Out the Smallest Main Belt Rock We’ve Ever Visited
27 Jan 2023, 10:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Team behind the Lucy spacecraft has expanded the scope of the mission by adding a new target asteroid to be visited well ahead of the original schedule
Truck-Sized Asteroid About to Make Close Pass Over South America, Has Astronomers Talking
26 Jan 2023, 10:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A recently-discovered small asteroid is about to make a very close pass over our planet on January 26, NASA says it will not impact
NASA’s New Near-Earth Objects Tracker Will See Even the Sneakiest of Space Rocks
23 Dec 2022, 09:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The NEO Surveyor, the first telescope purpose-built to look for near-Earth objects, moves into final design-and-fabrication phase
Spacecraft Is Speeding Towards Earth, Will Drop Something Alien Into Our Atmosphere
18 Oct 2022, 08:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA scientists have begun correcting the course of the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft as it heads back to drop to the surface a piece of asteroid Bennu
NASA's DART Mission Was a Success, Asteroid's Orbit Has Changed
12 Oct 2022, 10:32 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / NASA has confirmed that a thorough analysis of data over the past two weeks has shown that its DART mission was a success. Here's what you need to know
This Is the Last Thing a NASA Spacecraft Saw Before Hitting an Asteroid at 14,000 MPH
4 Oct 2022, 06:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA published the "last complete image of the asteroid Dimorphos, as seen by our Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) two seconds before impact."