It’s no secret that Earth was bombarded with plenty of meteors for billions of years during the solar system’s early…
As we’re fond of saying here at UT, space exploration is hard. Many things can go wrong when launching thousands…
NASA's Lucy spacecraft is on its way. The spacecraft was launched into space on Saturday, October 16th on an Atlas…
Imagine a scenario where we detect an asteroid heading straight for Earth. Imagine that it will arrive in a couple…
An early morning launch is planned for the Lucy spacecraft, the first space mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids. Tomorrow,…
A huge team of astronomers have combined forces to use the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) to…
So far, the battle between life on Earth and asteroids has been completely one-sided. But not for long. Soon, we'll…
In astronomy, comets and asteroids are defined very differently. Comets have a “nucleus,” usually made of ice and dust, and…
Usually, when the topic of asteroid mining comes up, thoughts turn to the riches of the asteroid belt between Mars…
An archeological dig has uncovered evidence of a massive cosmic airburst event approximately 3,600 years ago that destroyed an entire…