Asteroids
Mission to Metal World Takes a Big Step Forward with Thruster Test
Engineers at NASA's Glenn Research Center have just conducted a crucial test of the thruster that will take the Psyche…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Captures Lovely Blue Marble during Gravity Assist Swing-by to Asteroid Bennu
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission captured a lovely ‘Blue Marble’ image of our Home Planet during…
Hubble Spots Unique Object in the Main Asteroid Belt
An international team of scientists recently used the Hubble space telescope to spot a unique binary asteroid that behaves like…
Scientists Urge Europe to Stick With “Armageddon”-style Asteroid Mission
At the European Planetary Science Conference in Riga this week, scientists urged Europe to remain committed to the AIDA asteroid…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sampler Slingshots Around Earth Friday, Sept. 22 – Catch It If You Can!
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Barely a year after NASA’s OSIRIS-REx robotic asteroid sampler launched on a trailblazing mission to…
New Study Says Primordial Asteroid Belt was Empty
A new study by a team from the University of Bordeaux has turned the Asteroid Belt's origins on its head,…
Dawn Probe Finds Evidence of Subsurface Ice on Vesta
A new study from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, with the support of NASA, has found evidence of subsurface…
Watch Asteroid 3122 Florence Zip Past Earth This Weekend
Ready to hunt for low-flying space rocks? We've got an interesting pass of a Near Earth Asteroid this upcoming U.S.…
Large Near-Earth Asteroid Will Pass Earth by This September
According to NASA, the large Near-Earth Asteroid known as Florence will pass harmlessly past Earth this coming September
Watch Live 24-Hour Webcast for International Asteroid Day
Every day, Earth is hit by 60 to 300 metric tons of space dust and smaller meteoroids. But sometimes, larger…