[/caption] NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is losing its cool. The spacecraft is running out of the frozen…
[/caption] If you take a lot of digital pictures, you're probably familiar with the frustration of keeping track of dozens…
[/caption] Scientists from Japan were given the go-ahead to retrieve the sample return capsule from the Hayabusa spacecraft, which is…
[/caption] After overcoming multiple serious glitches, and a three-year delay in its four billion miles (six billion kilometers) round-trip journey,…
[/caption] The Tadpole nebula is looking very stylish in this new infrared image from the WISE spacecraft, NASA's Wide-field Infrared…
[/caption] We usually think of asteroids as dark, dry, lifeless chunks of rock, just like the image of Asteroid Itokawa,…
[/caption] Good to know the Spaceguard teams are keeping an eye out for us. The eagle-eyed observers at the Catalina…
[/caption] An asteroid could be visible with binoculars, or even the naked eye on Wednesday, February 17, 2010. No, it's…
[/caption] We reported earlier that on January 6, 2010, ground-based observatories may have spotted evidence of an asteroid collision in…
Are we ready to act if an asteroid or comet were to pose a threat to our planet? No, says…