Asteroids
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…
NASA Moves Up Mission to Metal Asteroid Psyche
I'm getting psyched for Psyche, which is both the name of an asteroid orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter…
Dinosaur Killing Asteroid Hit in Exactly the Wrong Place
A new BBC documentary called "The Day The Dinosaurs Died" explains how things might have been different for the dinosaurs…
2014 JO25 Flies By Earth — See It Tonight
A relatively large potentially hazardous asteroid passed near Earth earlier today. Now, it's visible in small telescopes tonight.
This Asteroid Broke In Half, and Then Both Halves Grew Tails Like Comets
Analysis by a team of international researchers has found an asteroid pair has formed tails after they split, making them…