Asteroids
Study Looks at Making Asteroid Mining Viable
Artist concept of the Robotic Asteroid Prospector. Credit: Marc Cohen et al. There’s been a lot of buzz in the…
How Many Asteroids Are Out There?
Answer: a LOT. And there's new ones being discovered all the time, as this fascinating animation by Scott Manley shows.…
Asteroid 2012 QG42 Zooms by Earth Tonight — Watch Live!
A newly found asteroid will zip past Earth tonight (Sept. 13/14). But don’t worry; at a distance of 2.85 million…
Dawn’s Parting Shots of Vesta
Dawn's look at asteroid Vesta as the spacecraft heads off to Ceres. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCAL/MPS/DLR/IDA As Dawn says goodbye to…
Wanted: Asteroid Mappers to Help Scientists Delve Through Data from Dawn
Many types of craters are captured in this panorama of recent Dawn images. Credit: NASA There’s a new citizen science…
Students: Asteroid 1999 RQ36 Needs a New Name!
NASA and the Planetary Society are giving students worldwide the opportunity to name an asteroid. And it’s not just any…
Desert RATS Begin Simulated Asteroid Mission Today
Caption: Artist's Concept, Space Exploration Vehicle Use Comparison. Credit: NASA Conspiracy theories abound that the Apollo landings all took place…
Watch A Near Earth Asteroid Zoom By
Caption: A view of asteroid 2002 AM31 on Friday, July 20 2012, at 08:34 UT by the Faulkes Telescope North.…
Oldest Impact Crater on Earth Discovered in Greenland
With shifting continents, rain, and wind, finding traces of ancient impact craters on Earth has been, literally, astronomically low. Now,…
Weekly Space Hangout – June 21, 2012
In this edition of the Weekly Space Hangout, we welcome a new participant: Mike Wall, senior writer at Space.com. We…