near earth asteroids
20% of Twilight Observations Contain Satellite Passes
Starlink trails are now commonly seen in images looking for near Earth asteroids.
What Are Your Options When you’ve Only Got Hours or Days to Prevent an Asteroid Impact?
Imagine a scenario where we detect an asteroid heading straight for Earth. Imagine that it will arrive in a couple…
You Can Blow Up an Asteroid Just a few Months Before it Hits Earth and Prevent 99% of the Damage
So far, the battle between life on Earth and asteroids has been completely one-sided. But not for long. Soon, we'll…
There are Many Metal-Rich Asteroids Nearby to Investigate
Usually, when the topic of asteroid mining comes up, thoughts turn to the riches of the asteroid belt between Mars…
NASA has Approved a Space Telescope That Will Scan the Skies for Dangerous Near-Earth Asteroids
A lot of the threats humanity faces come from ourselves. If we were listing them, we'd include tribalism, greed, and…
Astronomers Have Discovered a 2-km Asteroid Orbiting Closer to the Sun than Venus
Astronomers have painstakingly built models of the asteroid population, and those models predict that there will be ~1 km sized…
An Asteroid has been Found that Orbits the Sun Closer than Venus
Astronomers at Caltech's Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) have discovered an asteroid that orbits inside Venus. Though other asteroids have a…
Asteroid 2006 QV89 Now Has a 0% Chance of Hitting Earth in September
Why report on an asteroid that has no chance of hitting Earth? Because this asteroid, known as 2006 QV89, has…
Don’t Worry About Asteroid 2006QV89. There’s Only a 1 in 7000 Chance It’ll Hit the Earth in September
Whenever scientists announce an upcoming close encounter with an asteroid, certain corners of the internet light up like the synaptic…
Sorry Hollywood, it’s Going to Take a Lot More to Destroy an Asteroid
A new study from John Hopkins University has shown that blowing up asteroids might be harder than we thought.