Asteroids
Fragments From That Asteroid That Exploded Above Berlin Have Been Recovered and They're Really Special
On January 21st, 2024, a meter-sized asteroid (2024 BX1) entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded over Berlin at 12:33 am UTC…
Another Asteroid Discovered Hours Before it Impacts the Earth
What were you doing last Saturday? As it turns out, I was doing something rather unexciting… Trying to fix my…
Finally, Let’s Look at the Asteroid Treasure Returned to Earth by OSIRIS-REx
NASA's OSIRIS-REx delivered its precious cargo to Earth on September 24th, 2023. The sample from asteroid Bennu is contained inside…
Engineers Finally Open OSIRIS-REx’s Sample Container
We have all been there, had that one stubborn jar of jam that we just can’t open. Maybe you grab…
Miniaturized Jumping Robots Could Study An Asteroid’s Gravity
Missions focusing on small bodies in the solar system have been coming thick and fast lately. OSIRIS-Rex, Psyche, and Rosetta…
Finally. A Productive Use for Nuclear Weapons: Asteroid Defense
While it has been a favorite disaster movie theme, nuking an incoming asteroid in the real world has been touted…
Psyche Gives Us Its First Images of Space
NASA's Psyche mission began eight weeks ago when it launched from the Kennedy Space Center. While it won't reach its…
The New Asteroid Moon Discovered by Lucy Just Got its Own Name
When NASA's Lucy mission flew past asteroid Dinkinesh on November 1, 2023, it made the surprising discovery the asteroid had…
Contact Binary Asteroids are Common, but We’ve Never Seen One Form. So Let’s Make One
Ever want to play a game of cosmic billiards? That's commonly how the DART mission was described when it successfully…
If You’re Trying to Prevent an Asteroid Impact, the Technical and Political Challenges are Staggering
While preparing for the threat of an asteroid strike might seem like a hypothetical exercise, it's really not. The Solar…