How to Target and Collide With a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid
While some NASA scientists work to capture and explore an asteroid, other NASA scientists are calculating how to target and collide with an asteroid, running…
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Asteroid Retrieval Initiative – NASA Plans to Capture & Explore an Asteroid
NASA’s new budget proposal includes a plan to capture a small near-Earth asteroid so they can safely study and explore it. The below video shows…
Finding the Asteroids That Threaten Earth
By building an asteroid-hunting space telescope called Sentinel, the B612 Foundation aims to track down the thousands of unknown asteroids that could pose a threat…
Near-Earth Asteroid 2012 DA14 Makes a Preview Appearance
A new set of animated images show asteroid 2012 DA14 as it nears its record-close approach to Earth on February 15, 2013. Like trailers for…
Q & A and Video Animations from NASA on Asteroid 2012 DA14 and Its Near Earth Approach
As a follow-up to yesterday’s information on Asteroid 2012 DA14 and its record close approach to Earth that will occur on February 15, NASA has…
Asteroid to Make a Record Close Approach to Earth on February 15
According to NASA data, a 45 meter asteroid named 2012 DA14 will make a record close approach for a known object of this size to…
Asteroid Apophis Will Make a Record Setting Close Approach to Earth
Using the Herschel Space Observatory, scientists gathered new data on the asteroid Apophis, an asteroid that will make a recording setting close approach to Earth…
4.5 km Asteroid Tumbles Past Earth
NASA’s Goldstone radar is capturing new images of the 4.5 km asteroid Toutatis as it passes by Earth this month. This week, NASA’s Goldstone radar…
Asteroid Collision Led to the Mass Extinction of Lizards and Snakes
A newly published study details the mass extinction of lizards and snakes that occurred after an asteroid struck the Earth 65.5 million years ago, finding…
5-Mile Wide Buried Asteroid Crater Discovered in Canada
A 5-mile wide and 3,000 foot deep asteroid impact crater has been hidden near Bow City, Alberta, for millions of years. Bow City has been…
New Images of Near-Earth Asteroid 2007 PA8
Nine new radar images were taken of asteroid 2007 PA8, a near-Earth asteroid that measures roughly 1.6 kilometers wide. 2007 PA8 passed at a distance…
NASA’s Dawn Gets a Close Up View of the Canuleia Crater on Vesta
New data from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft shows a close up of the Canuleia Crater on the asteroid Vesta, illustrating the structure of the interior of…
Space-Launched Paintballs Could Possibly Deflect an Incoming Asteroid
The 2012 Move an Asteroid Technical Paper Competition winner, Sung Wook Paek, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, proposed using a…
NASA’s WISE Uncovers New Clues on Jovian Trojans
New data from WISE answers several questions about Jovian Trojans, asteroids that orbit the sun on the same path as Jupiter, and is the first…
Asteroid Dust Could Shield Earth from Harmful Solar Radiation
Scottish scientists have proposed to use a giant space-based dust cloud, blasted off an asteroid, to shade the Earth from the sun. Deliberately manipulating the…
Orbits of a Near-Earth Asteroid and a Potentially Hazardous Asteroid
This NASA image of the day shows the differences between orbits of a typical near-Earth asteroid and a potentially hazardous asteroid, or PHA. The Hustle…
Trajectory Models of Refractory Particles Help Solve Two Solar System Puzzles
In a newly published study, astrophysicists detail how they modeled the trajectories of refractory particles in the unstable disk of gas and dust that formed…
Near Miss Asteroid – An Opportunity to Test a Rapid Response Program
As an international team of astronomers continues to monitor the skies for approaching asteroids, the recent approach of a 23 foot wide asteroid gave scientists…
