Asteroids

WISE Cryostat is Depleting

[/caption] NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is losing its cool. The spacecraft is running out of the frozen…

11 years ago

WISE Mission Completes All-sky Infrared Survey

[/caption] If you take a lot of digital pictures, you're probably familiar with the frustration of keeping track of dozens…

11 years ago

Hayabusa Sample Return Capsule Retrieved

[/caption] Scientists from Japan were given the go-ahead to retrieve the sample return capsule from the Hayabusa spacecraft, which is…

11 years ago

Hayabusa on the Homestretch on Return to Earth

[/caption] After overcoming multiple serious glitches, and a three-year delay in its four billion miles (six billion kilometers) round-trip journey,…

11 years ago

WISE Pictures the Tadpole Nebula with a String of Pearls

[/caption] The Tadpole nebula is looking very stylish in this new infrared image from the WISE spacecraft, NASA's Wide-field Infrared…

12 years ago

Possible Destination? Researchers Find Water Ice and Organics on Asteroid

[/caption] We usually think of asteroids as dark, dry, lifeless chunks of rock, just like the image of Asteroid Itokawa,…

12 years ago

Newly Discovered Asteroid Will Pass by Earth April 8

[/caption] Good to know the Spaceguard teams are keeping an eye out for us. The eagle-eyed observers at the Catalina…

12 years ago

Asteroid Might be Visible to Naked Eye on Feb. 17

[/caption] An asteroid could be visible with binoculars, or even the naked eye on Wednesday, February 17, 2010. No, it's…

12 years ago

Hubble Takes A Look at Possible Asteroid Collision

[/caption] We reported earlier that on January 6, 2010, ground-based observatories may have spotted evidence of an asteroid collision in…

12 years ago

Asteroid Detection, Deflection Needs More Money, Report Says

Are we ready to act if an asteroid or comet were to pose a threat to our planet? No, says…

12 years ago