NEOWISE
This Summer’s Asteroid Near-Miss Helped Greenlight NASA’s NEOCam Mission to Search the Skies for Killer Spacerocks
Last July, a once-in-a-lifetime event happened. Not the good kind; the football-field-sized-asteroid near-miss kind. And that near miss is the…
NASA’s NEOWISE Missions Spots New Comets
NASA's NEOWISE mission has been responsible for many interesting finds, the latest of which are two possible comets that could…
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…
The Next Generation of Exploration: The NEOCam Mission
In February of 2014, NASA put out the call for submissions for the thirteenth mission of their Discovery Program. In…
Comet K1 PanSTARRS: See It Now Before it Heads South
Comet C/2012 K1 PanSTARRS, one of the most dependable comets of 2014, may put on its encore performance over the…
Will an Asteroid Smack Jupiter in 2022?
A recent space rock discovery has sent a minor buzz through the community that tracks such objects. And as usual,…
UPDATE: NASA Senior Review Declines WISE Spacecraft Data Usage Idea
CORRECTION: This story corrects a previously stated misinterpretation of the NASA Senior Report that the WISE spacecraft itself was denied an…
NEOWISE Spots a “Weirdo” Comet
NASA's NEOWISE mission -- formerly known as just WISE -- has identified the first comet of its new near-Earth object…
Weekly Space Hangout – January 31, 2014: No Black Holes?!?
Host: Fraser Cain Guests: Brian Koberlein, Morgan Rehnberg, David Dickinson, Jason Major, Nicole Gugliucci (more…)
After A Long Nap, NEOWISE Springs Into Action With Asteroid Discoveries
If anything, NASA's asteroid-hunting spacecraft seems to be refreshed after going into forced hibernation for 2.5 years. In the first…