Asteroids
Astronomers Look “Inside” an Asteroid for the First Time
From directly inferring the inside of an asteroid for the first time, astronomers have discovered these space rocks can have…
Herschel Discovers Water Vapor Spewing from Ceres
With the Dawn spacecraft now heading towards the dwarf planet/asteroid Ceres, the mission has suddenly gotten even more intriguing. The…
Hitch a Ride on the Next Mission to an Asteroid
NASA and the Planetary Society are teaming up to give everyone the opportunity tag along on the next mission to…
Space Shuttle-Sized Asteroid 2013 XY8 to Fly Past Earth on Dec. 11
A newly-discovered asteroid about the size of a space shuttle will fly past Earth on December 11, 2013 at a…
Watch This Asteroid Not Hit Earth
Earlier today the near-Earth asteroid 2013 NJ sailed by, coming as close as 2.5 lunar distances -- about 960,000 km/596,500…
Watch PBS NOVA’s “Asteroid—Doomsday or Payday?”
Last night, the US PBS television stations aired a new show from the series NOVA, "Asteroid -- Doomsday or Payday."…
Weekly Space Hangout – October 25, 2013: Preventing Asteroids, More Comets, Worldview Balloon
So much space news, so little time. We had a great Weekly Space Hangout with several of our familiar space…
Watch Live: Defending Earth from Asteroids
Live streaming video by Ustream We know that hundreds of thousands of asteroids orbit the Sun, and a very few…
Weekly Space Hangout – October 18, 2013: Penny4NASA, SpaceX Plans, ISON Lives!
This week for the Weekly Space Hangout, we were joined by an impressive team of space journalists and special guest…
Astronomers Stress the Need for Characterizing the Population of Nearby Potential Earth-Impactors
The meteor explosion over Russia in February 2013 raised concerns that even small asteroid impactors may wreak some havoc given…