Asteroids
Newly Discovered Asteroid Has a Close Encounter with Earth
As NASA prepares to send a spacecraft to a distant asteroid, another space rock made a surprise visit to Earth’s…
OSIRIS-Rex Asteroid Mission Seeks to Search for Origin of Life Chemistry
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - OSIRIS-Rex, NASA’s first mission to retrieve and return samples of “pristine materials” from the surface…
The Solar System Gets A Second Mercury
Freddie Mercury, the iconic front man from the band Queen, is having an asteroid named after him to commemorate what…
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sampling Probe Assembled at Florida Launch Base for Sep. 8 Blastoff — Cleanroom Photos
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - OSIRIS-Rex, the first American sponsored probe aimed at retrieving “pristine materials” from the surface of…
How Long Does it Take to get to the Asteroid Belt?
Just how long would it take to get to the Asteroid Belt, in the event that we want to start…
The Moon’s Mare Imbrium Was Hit By Protoplanetary Size Impactor
The asteroid that punched an “eye” in the Moon is about 10 times more massive than originally thought. Researchers say…
NASA Approves New Horizons Extended KBO Mission, Keeps Dawn at Ceres
In an ‘Independence Day’ gift to a slew of US planetary research scientists, NASA has granted approval to nine ongoing…
Returned Samples Of Asteroid Itokawa Show Violent 4.5 Billion Year History
Asteroid Itokawa had a sometimes violent 4.5 billion year history, according to samples returned by Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa.
Centaurs Keep Their Rings From Greedy Gas Giants
Minor planets like Chariklo are good at keeping their ring systems away from larger planets, and we are beginning to…
470 Million Year Old Meteorite Discovered In Swedish Quarry
A fossilized meteorite from a quarry in Sweden is a new type of space rock that's different from other meteors.