Asteroids
Dawn Just Wants To Make All The Other Probes Look Bad
The team in charge of NASA's Dawn mission have asked to extend the spacecraft's journey to a third destination.
NASA Invests In Radical Game-Changing Concepts For Exploration
As part of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts program, NASA recently announced 13 radical proposals for funding and development
NASA Discovers 72 New Asteroids Near Earth
Since 2013, the NEOWISE mission has surveyed more than 19,000 asteroids and comets and discovered 72 new Near Earth Objects…
Dinosaur Killer Chicxulub Crater To Be Drilled For First Time
Scientists will drill down into the site of the dinosaur-killing asteroid impact site to understand how life on Earth recovered.
We Have Underestimated Our Sun’s Destructive Reach
The Sun causes the destruction of asteroids at a much greater distance than previously thought.
Russia’s New Ballistic Missiles to be Tested on Asteroids
Russian scientists say design work has already begun on missiles designed to destroy incoming asteroids.
NASA Says “No Chance” Small Asteroid Will Hit Earth On March 5th
On March 5th, asteroid 2013 TX68 could be making a close flyby Earth. But NASA's asteroid watchers insist there's no…
Weekly Space Hangout – Jan. 22, 2016: Dr. Stuart Robbins
Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain) Special Guest: Dr. Stuart Robbins, Research Scientist at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI); Mars Impact Craters, Science…
How Many Moons Does Mars Have?
Many of the planets in our Solar System have a system of moons. But among the rocky planets that make…
Who was Gerard Kuiper?
In the outer reaches of the Solar System, beyond the orbit of Neptune, lies a region permeated by celestial objects…