Asteroids
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…
Asteroid Risk Lowered
When Asteroid 2003 qq47 was discovered last week from a tracking system in New Mexico, astronomers predicted that it could…
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…