Asteroids

News Flash: Asteroid Flying Past Earth Today Has Mini-Moon!

Wonderful news! Asteroid 2004 BL86, which passed closest to Earth today at a distance of 750,000 miles (1.2 million km),…

10 years ago

Here’s Ceres Compared to All the Other Asteroids We’ve Visited

When the Dawn mission was in its planning stages, Ceres was considered an asteroid. But in 2006, a year before…

10 years ago

Here’s Dawn’s Best View of Ceres Yet

Just sit back and watch the world turn… or should I say, watch the dwarf planet turn in this fascinating animation…

10 years ago

Big Asteroid 2004 BL86 Buzzes Earth on January 26: How to See it in Your Telescope

A lot of asteroids pass near Earth every year. Many are the size of a house, make close flybys and…

10 years ago

Faster-Than-Light Lasers Could “Illuminate” the Universe

It's a cornerstone of modern physics that nothing in the Universe is faster than the speed of light (c). However,…

10 years ago

Asteroids Don’t Break Up Like You Think They Do: Study

The early Solar System was a shooting gallery. Smaller-body collisions happened far more frequently than we see it today, pockmarking…

10 years ago

10 Space Science Stories to Watch in 2015

A new Avengers movie. A reboot of the Star Wars franchise. The final installment of the Hunger Games. The Martian…

10 years ago

Work Those Quads: Our Guide to the 2015 Quadrantid Meteors

Quick… what’s the only major meteor shower named after a defunct constellation?  If you said the January Quadrantids, you’d be…

10 years ago

2015: NASA’s Year of the Dwarf Planet

Together, the space probes Dawn and New Horizons have been in flight for a collective 17 years. One remained close…

10 years ago

Rosetta’s Instruments Direct Scientists to Look Elsewhere for the Source of Earth’s Water

Where did all of our water come from? What might seem like a simple question has challenged and intrigued planetary…

10 years ago