Asteroids
Write Your Name on an Asteroid?
A Japanese spacecraft will give people an opportunity to land their name on an asteroid. Due for launch near the…
Looking for Asteroids in the Earth’s Blindspot
Lately it seems that astronomers are discovering potentially harmful asteroids after they nearly miss our planet. This is because they're…
Astronomers Find Five Double Asteroid Systems
Image credit: Cornell According to researchers from Cornell University, binary asteroids - where a small asteroid orbits a larger one…
Asteroids Could Be Double Previous Estimates
Asteroids in our solar system could be more numerous than previously thought according to a new survey done using the…
New Strategy for Deflecting Smaller Asteroids
Image credit: NASA A planetary scientist from the University of Arizona believes that smaller asteroids could be moved out of…
Asteroid Discovered After a Near Miss
Astronomers discovered a new asteroid, four days after it made a near miss of the Earth. The object, now called…
New Clues About the Great Dying
Scientists know that approximately 250 million years something wiped out almost all the life on Earth; however, what exactly happened…