Asteroids
Amazing Impact Crater Where a Triple Asteroid Smashed into Mars
At first glance, you many not guess that this feature on Mars is an impact crater. The reason it looks…
Dawn Captures Best Images Ever of “Hipster Planet” Ceres
This is the second animation from Dawn this year showing Ceres rotating, and at 43 pixels across the images are officially the…
Are Asteroids the Future of Planetary Science?
I don't think I ever learned one of those little rhymes - My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine…
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),…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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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…