Asteroids
Hayabusa Returns!
Japan's little spacecraft that could returned to Earth, putting on quite a show over the Australian outback, making a fiery…
Hayabusa on the Homestretch on Return to Earth
[/caption] After overcoming multiple serious glitches, and a three-year delay in its four billion miles (six billion kilometers) round-trip journey,…
WISE Covers the Heart and Soul of Infrared Astronomy
[/caption] In about six months' time, NASA's WISE mission, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, has captured almost a million images,…
WISE Pictures the Tadpole Nebula with a String of Pearls
[/caption] The Tadpole nebula is looking very stylish in this new infrared image from the WISE spacecraft, NASA's Wide-field Infrared…
Near Earth Asteroid 2010 GU21 Swoops By Earth On May 5
[/caption] The Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) 2010 GU21 was discovered by the Catalina Sky Survey on April 5 2010 (MPEC 2010-G55)…
Possible Destination? Researchers Find Water Ice and Organics on Asteroid
[/caption] We usually think of asteroids as dark, dry, lifeless chunks of rock, just like the image of Asteroid Itokawa,…
Obama Wants Mission to Asteroid by 2025, Mars by mid-2030’s
[/caption] Speaking at Kennedy Space Center, President Barack Obama discussed his plans for NASA which includes sending astronauts to a…
Newly Discovered Asteroid Will Pass by Earth April 8
[/caption] Good to know the Spaceguard teams are keeping an eye out for us. The eagle-eyed observers at the Catalina…
Scientists Come to a Conclusion: Asteroid Killed the Dinosaurs
Over the years, scientists have debated the cause of the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years…
Small Asteroids, Bread Flour, and a Dutch Physicist’s 150-year Old Theory
[/caption] No, it's not the Universe Puzzle No. 3; rather, it's an intriguing result from recent work into the strange…