Asteroids

Huge Asteroid 324 Bamberga Makes a Return Visit to Earth’s Neighborhood on Friday the 13th

This week offers a fine chance to catch sight of a unique asteroid. 324 Bamberga reaches opposition this week in…

11 years ago

NASA: 96 Things You Can Do With an Asteroid

NASA is really getting into this crowd-sourcing thing. The space agency asked and the public responded with hundreds of ideas…

11 years ago

‘Drift Is The Most Dangerous Thing For NASA’

It's easy to take the International Space Station for granted. It's been planned, under construction and/or operated for decades. Humans…

11 years ago

Trojan Asteroid Found Orbiting Uranus

What’s new in the outer reaches of our solar system? Try the discovery of a Trojan asteroid orbiting Uranus. While…

11 years ago

A New Look at NASA’s Asteroid Capture Plan

NASA has released some new photos and video animations outlining the concept of how their planned asteroid capture mission will…

11 years ago

WISE Spacecraft Re-Activated to Hunt for Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

A hibernating spacecraft has been called back into service. The WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer”) spacecraft that has been sleeping…

11 years ago

NASA & US Navy Test Demonstrates Water Recovery of Orion Crew Capsule

During the stationary recovery test of Orion at Norfolk Naval Base on Aug. 15, 2013, US Navy divers attached tow…

11 years ago

These 12 Asteroids Are The Easiest Ones To Bring Back To Earth

As NASA works through proposals for an asteroid retrieval mission, a new paper shows that there are other research groups…

11 years ago

Comets Could Arise Closer To Earth, Study Suggests

There's a potential "cometary graveyard" of inactive comets in our solar system wandering between Mars and Jupiter, a new Colombian…

11 years ago