Asteroids
Space Shuttle-Sized Asteroid 2013 XY8 to Fly Past Earth on Dec. 11
A newly-discovered asteroid about the size of a space shuttle will fly past Earth on December 11, 2013 at a…
Ready For Your Closeup, Ceres? NASA Spacecraft Gets Closer To Dwarf Planet
The next few years will be banner ones for learning about dwarf planets. While the high-profile New Horizons spacecraft zooms…
Watch This Asteroid Not Hit Earth
Earlier today the near-Earth asteroid 2013 NJ sailed by, coming as close as 2.5 lunar distances -- about 960,000 km/596,500…
NASA Plans To Deepen Asteroid Searches With Planetary Resources
Planetary Resources Inc. -- that company that is developing a crowdsourced space telescope to search for asteroids -- is planning…
Watch PBS NOVA’s “Asteroid—Doomsday or Payday?”
Last night, the US PBS television stations aired a new show from the series NOVA, "Asteroid -- Doomsday or Payday."…
Asteroids Can Get Shaken And Stirred By Mars’ Gravity
Asteroids are sometimes called loose rubble piles, which leads to interesting effects if they happen to get close to a…
‘Freakish’ Asteroid Has Six Tails, Sheds Stuff Into Space
A lawn sprinkler in space. That's one of the descriptions NASA has for the curious P/2013 P5, which is spewing not…
Lovely Green Olivine On Vesta Paints A Different Formation History
That ghoul-like sheen on the asteroid Vesta, as seen in the image above, is not some leftover of Hallowe'en. It's…
What If Earth Was Threatened by An Asteroid Strike? Astronaut Panel Brings Up Ideas To Search, Deflect These Threats
"If we get hit 20 years from now, that's not bad luck. That's stupidity." That's what former NASA astronaut Ed…
Watch Live: Defending Earth from Asteroids
Live streaming video by Ustream We know that hundreds of thousands of asteroids orbit the Sun, and a very few…