Asteroids
Cosmic C.S.I.: Searching for the Origins of the Solar System in Two Grains of Sand
"The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches…
NASA Explains Their New Asteroid Retrieval Mission
NASA's FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a…
Official Confirms NASA Plan to Capture an Asteroid
Rumors have been leaking out for over a week, but now according to Alan Boyle at NBC News’ Cosmic Log,…
5 Weird Things About Vesta
When Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers first glimpsed Vesta on March 29, 1807 -- this date in history -- the asteroid was but…
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…