Asteroids
Hayabusa Landed on Itokawa Successfully
Officials from the Japanese space agency (JAXA) announced yesterday that Hayabusa successfully touched down on asteroid Itokawa last weekend, bounced…
Japanese Probe Seems Lost in Space
It appears that the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) has lost contact with a small probe released from its mothership Hayabusa…
ESA Picks an Asteroid to Move
Instead of waiting for asteroids to slam into the Earth, the European Space Agency is working on a mission that…
Leftover Material Caused the Late Heavy Bombardment
Planets in the inner Solar System suffered two devastating periods of asteroid bombardment. Scientists are fairly certain that the early…
What the Ground Telescopes Saw During Deep Impact
Researchers have had a few months to crunch through the data collected during Deep Impact's collision with Comet Tempel 1.…
Hayabusa’s Photo of Itokawa
Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft arrived at Asteroid Itokawa earlier this week, and now it's sending back beautiful images. This image is…
Asteroid Ceres Could Have Large Amounts of Water
New observations from the Hubble Space Telescope indicate that the largest asteroid in the Solar System, Ceres, might have huge…
Asteroid Dust Could Influence the Weather
Dust from asteroids entering our atmosphere could affect the weather more than scientists previously believed, according to a new study…
Asteroid Close Call Will Be a Gain for Science
Researchers from the University of Michigan are predicting that when asteroid 99942 Apophis (2004 MN4) swings past the Earth in…
Triple Asteroid System Discovered
Astronomers from the US and France have discovered an asteroid with two small moons. The asteroid, 87 Sylvia, has been…