Asteroids
Watch NOVA’s “Meteor Strike”
Watch Meteor Strike on PBS. See more from NOVA. It was an event that took the world by surprise: On…
Close Passing Asteroid 2013 ET Gets Its Picture Taken
Another space rock sat pretty for NASA's big dish photographer. The 70-meter (230-feet) Goldstone antenna zinged radio waves at 2013 ET on…
We Live in a Cosmic Shooting Gallery
In this new video from Big Think, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says he's almost embarrassed for our species that it…
NASA’s KaBOOM Experimental Asteroid Radar Aims to Thwart Earth’s Kaboom
Over the past month, about a half dozen rather large asteroids have careened nearby our home planet and in one…
Top 9 Weird Asteroid Names (and 1 Awesome Asteroid Moon Name)
Cats, celebrities and fictional creatures all have a home in the asteroid belt. That's because the people that found these…
Russian Asteroid Explosion and Past Impactors Paint a Potentially Grim Future for Earth
The recent meteor explosion over Chelyabinsk brought to the forefront a topic that has worried astronomers for years, namely that an impactor…
2014 AZ5: The Fake Asteroid that Won’t Hit Earth
Be careful where you get your news. Some websites have headlines that are screaming "GIANT ASTEROID HEADING TO EARTH!" or…
Giant Ancient Impact Crater Confirmed in Iowa
A monster lurks under northeastern Iowa. That monster is in the form of a giant buried basin, the result of…
Newly Found Asteroid to Pass Within Moon’s Orbit on March 4, 2013
A newly found asteroid will pass just inside the orbit of the Moon, with its closest approach on March 4,…
Big Meteorite Chunk Found in Russia’s Ural Mountains
Scientists and meteorites hunters have been on a quest to find bits of rock from the asteroid which exploded over…