Asteroids
Amateur Spots Close Passing Asteroid
Image credit: UA A volunteer analyzing data gathered by the University of Arizona's Spacewatch program has discovered an 18 x…
Force on Asteroids Measured for the First Time
Image credit: NASA/JPL NASA scientists have measured a tiny force for the first time which is known to act on…
Long-Lost Asteroid Re-Discovered
Image credit: Lowell Observatory Astronomers from the Lowell Observatory have re-discovered a Near Earth Asteroid that hasn't been seen since…
Small Asteroid Came Very Close
Image credit: Lowell Observatory Asteroid 2003 SQ222 whizzed by the Earth last week, missing us by only 88,000 kilometres. The…
Dinosaurs Killed By Volcanoes and Asteroids?
Image credit: NASA Most paleontologist believe that a gigantic asteroid struck Mexico 65 million years ago and killed all the…
NASA Proposes to Search for Smaller Asteroids
Image credit: NASA/JPL Five years ago NASA began a program to discover 90% of potential Earth-crossing asteroids larger than 1…
Sunlight Spins Asteroids
Image credit: NASA/JPL Astronomers have long-held that collisions were the primary cause of spinning asteroids, but new research indicates that…
Asteroids are Probably a Threat. Maybe?
Image credit: NASA As potentially killer asteroids are announced on an almost yearly basis, the public is started to get…
Keck Gets a Clear View of Asteroid (511) Davida
Image credit: Keck A team of astronomers have used the 10-metre Keck II telescope to create a series of images…
“Killer” Asteroid will Miss
Additional observations from astronomers have decreased the likelihood to virtually zero that Asteroid 2003 qq47 will strike the Earth in…