Asteroids
Japanese ‘Space Cannon’ On Track For Aiming At An Asteroid: Reports
Watch out, asteroid 1999 JU3: you're being targeted. As several media reports reminded us, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)'s…
Here’s Your Chance To Fund A New Asteroid Search
The crowdfunding campaign is off to a slow start, but the PHASST-1 telescope still has more than a month to…
NASA: Less Than 1% Chance That Asteroid 2013 TV135 Will Hit Earth In 2032
We'll skip straight to the good news: NASA says Earth is likely safe from Asteroid 2013 TV135. Calculations put the…
Wet Asteroid’s Remains Found In Old Star That Could Have Hosted Habitable Planets
Remains of a water-filled asteroid are circling a dying white dwarf star, right now, about 150 light-years from us. The…
Possible Huge Meteorite Fragment Recovered From Russian Fireball
A half-ton meteorite -- presumably from the Russian fireball that broke up over Chelyabinsk in February -- was dragged up…
Astronomers Stress the Need for Characterizing the Population of Nearby Potential Earth-Impactors
The meteor explosion over Russia in February 2013 raised concerns that even small asteroid impactors may wreak some havoc given…
Tale Of Two Moons Reveals Asteroid’s Insides
Fluffy, with a core of density. That's what the interior of the asteroid 87 Sylvia likely looks like, astronomers say.…
Bazinga: Mysterious Earth Orbiting Asteroid Turns Out to be Space Junk
Can’t find asteroid 2010 QW1 in the Minor Planet Database? No, the “Men in Black” didn’t secretly remove this Earth-orbiting…
“Oddball” Asteroid is Really a Comet
It's a case of mistaken identity: a near-Earth asteroid with a peculiar orbit turns out not to be an asteroid…