Is it time for space lasers yet? Almost. As time passes, ideas that were once confined to the realm of…
While preparing for the threat of an asteroid strike might seem like a hypothetical exercise, it's really not. The Solar…
A newly discovered asteroid called 2023 DW has generated quite a buzz over the past week, due to an estimated…
The asteroids in our Solar System are survivors. They've withstood billions of years of collisions. The surviving asteroids are divided…
An asteroid 1.5 km across is no joke. Even a much smaller one, about the size of a house, can…
An asteroid striking Earth is a genuine possibility. There are tens of thousands of asteroids classified as Near-Earth Asteroids (NEAs),…
NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) just launched and will intercept a Near-Earth Asteroid (NEA) in ten months!
Imagine a scenario where we detect an asteroid heading straight for Earth. Imagine that it will arrive in a couple…
So far, the battle between life on Earth and asteroids has been completely one-sided. But not for long. Soon, we'll…
Asteroid Bennu is one of the two most hazardous known asteroids in our Solar System. Luckily, the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral…