Asteroids
Asteroid Ryugu is a “Fragile Rubble Pile”
When Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft arrived at asteroid Ryugu in June 2018, it carried four small rovers with it. Hayabusa…
Watch this Amazing Video of Hayabusa 2 Picking Up a Sample from the Surface of Ryugu
A new video shows Japan's Hayabusa 2 sample return spacecraft collecting samples from asteroid Ryugu. The spacecraft has been at…
Asteroid 2006 QV89 Now Has a 0% Chance of Hitting Earth in September
Why report on an asteroid that has no chance of hitting Earth? Because this asteroid, known as 2006 QV89, has…
Hayabusa 2 is the First Spacecraft to Sample the Inside of an Asteroid
Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is now the first spacecraft to retrieve a subsurface sample from an asteroid. On July 11th,…
Who Wants to be a Trillionaire? Mission to Psyche Could Uncover Tons of Precious Metals!
NASA's Psyche mission is sure to find some interesting things when it explores a metal asteroid, like quadrillions of dollars…
Hubble is the Ultimate Multitasker: Discovering Asteroids While it’s Doing Other Observations
It looks like a poster of the famous Hubble Deep Field, marked with white streaks by a child, or put…
This is the Closest OSIRIS-REx has Gotten to Bennu. Just 680 Meters Above the Asteroid
NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been at asteroid Bennu since Dec. 3rd, 2018. On that day, it went from travelling to…
Robotic asteroid mining spacecraft wins a grant from NASA
This year, the NASA's NIAC Program is looking at some really interesting ideas - such as a water-powered, laser-shooting, asteroid-mining…
The Japanese asteroid-hunter had another photo opportunity when it dropped a target marker on asteroid Ryugu
Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft just launched its second target marker to the surface of the asteroid Ryugu.
Don’t Worry About Asteroid 2006QV89. There’s Only a 1 in 7000 Chance It’ll Hit the Earth in September
Whenever scientists announce an upcoming close encounter with an asteroid, certain corners of the internet light up like the synaptic…