Asteroids
Infrared Ring Around a Young Star
Image credit: ESO A new image taken by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) shows an infrared halo…
Asteroids Named for Lost Astronauts
Image credit: NASA Seven asteroids were recently renamed to honour the astronauts of the space shuttle Columbia. The asteroids are…
Asteroid Juno Has a Chunk Out of It
Image credit: Harvard New images taken by the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory show Asteroid Juno with a…
Fewer Asteroids Threaten the Earth
Image credit: NASA Researchers have built a computer simulation that better predicts how large asteroids will interact with the Earth's…
More Evidence that Meteors Caused Mass Extinctions
Image credit: NASA A team of researchers from Louisiana State University have uncovered a connection between a meteor strike and…
Japanese Rocket Launches Asteroid Probe
A Japanese M-5 rocket lifted off on Friday carrying a spacecraft which will be the first to ever collect samples…
The Path of Earth’s Asteroid Companion
Image credit: NASA Asteroid 2002 AA29 happens to share almost the same orbit as the Earth as it goes around…
Asteroid Found to Match Earth’s Orbit
Astronomers have discovered an asteroid in a companion orbit to the Earth. Named 2002 AA29, this 100 metre asteroid was…
Experts Estimate Asteroid Risk
At a NASA-sponsored conference, a group of experts have estimated that the Earth is struck once every 1,000 years by…
Space Rock Sneaks Past the Earth
Amateur astronomers were given a rare treat on Sunday when asteroid 2002 NY40 passed within 530,000 kilometres of the Earth…