Asteroids
A Region On Mars With Recent Water Is About To Get Major Attention
Curving wriggles seen in sand dunes on Earth and formed by the recent ebb and flow of water have just…
Meet Asteroid 2017 BQ6 — A Giant, Spinning Brick
New asteroid 2017 BQ6 was all elbows when it flew by Earth just a few days ago. Images reveal it…
NASA Announces Missions to Explore Early Solar System
NASA has announced the two missions that will make up Discovery 13 and 14, both of which are robotic missions…
Start the Year With Spark: See the Quadrantid Meteor Shower
If one of your New Year's resolutions is to spend more time under the stars in 2017, you'll have motivation to…
NASA’s NEOWISE Missions Spots New Comets
NASA's NEOWISE mission has been responsible for many interesting finds, the latest of which are two possible comets that could…
101 Astronomical Events for 2017: A Teaser
A comprehensive guide to astronomical oppositions, occultations, eclipses, comets and more for 2017.
NASA Technology Used To Find Stone Age Structures
Using the same kind of light and detection ranging (lidar) technology as the OSIRIS-REx missions, archaeologists are uncovering secrets of…
Soar Over Ceres With New Images From the Dawn Spacecraft
There’s one thing that could mean the end of the Dawn mission: if the hydrazine fuel for its maneuvering thruster…
Rock Legends – the Asteroids and Their Discoverers
If we are indeed stardust, then what will our future hold? And what happened to all that other dust that…
NASA’s New Asteroid Alert System Gives 5 Whole Days of Warning
NASA's Scout Program for the early detection of asteroids passed it's first test, giving us 5 days notice of 2016…