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Asteroids

Mars Gets Bombarded by 200 Small Asteroids and Comets Every Year

May 15, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter One of the benefits of having a spacecraft in orbit around another planet for several years is the ability to make long-term observations and interpretations. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been orbiting Mars for over seven years now, and by studying [...]

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Orion Capsule Accelerating to 2014 Launch and Eventual Asteroid Exploration

April 14, 2013

NASA is picking up the construction pace on the inaugural space-bound Orion crew capsule at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida – and accelerating towards blastoff on the unmanned Exploration Flight Test-1 mission (EFT-1) slated for September 2014 atop a mammoth Delta 4 Heavy Booster which will one day lead to deep space human [...]

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NASA Explains Their New Asteroid Retrieval Mission

April 10, 2013

NASA’s FY2014 budget proposal includes a plan to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it. A spacecraft would capture an asteroid — which hasn’t been chosen yet, but would be about 7 meters (25 feet) wide — [...]

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Watch NOVA’s “Meteor Strike”

March 28, 2013

Watch Meteor Strike on PBS. See more from NOVA. It was an event that took the world by surprise: On the morning of February 15, 2013 a 7,000-ton asteroid crashed into the Earth’s atmosphere. According to NASA, the Siberian meteor exploded with the power of 30 Hiroshima bombs and was the largest object to burst [...]

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We Live in a Cosmic Shooting Gallery

March 13, 2013

In this new video from Big Think, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson says he’s almost embarrassed for our species that it takes a warning shot across our bow before legislators take seriously the advice they’ve been receiving from astronomers about getting serious about asteroid detection and deflection; that it’s a matter of when not if Earth [...]

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