“Skull Shaped” Asteroid 2015 TB145 Will Flyby Earth This Halloween
Just in time for Halloween, a large space rock that bears an eerie resemblance to a skull will zip past Earth this weekend. Scientists observing…
Just in time for Halloween, a large space rock that bears an eerie resemblance to a skull will zip past Earth this weekend. Scientists observing…
Using data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, astronomers mapped the gravity field in and around more than 1,200 craters on the far side…
Comet Hitchhiker is in Phase I study through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Program. Its goal is to use the kinetic energy of comets and…
In an effort to dispel rumors of an impending asteroid impact on Earth, NASA has stated, “There is no scientific basis — not one shred…
Asteroid 1999 FN53 will safely flyby Earth on May 14 at a distance of no less than 6.3 million miles. An asteroid, designated 1999 FN53,…
In a new press release, NASA details its Asteroid Redirect Mission and reveals that it has increased the detection of near-Earth asteroids by 65 percent…
As asteroid 2004 BL86 made its way past Earth yesterday, scientists were able to better measure the asteroid’s size, rotation and location and detected a…
NASA reviews the past 12 months of NEOWISE discoveries with a short video that shows the progression of the NEOWISE survey in the year after…
On January 26 asteroid 2004 BL86 will safely pass Earth at a distance of about 745,000 miles away, this will be the closest that the…
A team of astronomers has revealed a new set of calculations for catastrophic disruptions of main belt asteroids, finding that for asteroids about one hundred…
With Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s recent launch of the Hayabusa2 mission, NASA and other space agencies across the globe are opening up new possibilities for…
This new six-minute animated video (below) details NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, Asteroid Bennu, and the formation of our solar system. Born from the rubble of a…
Using NASA’s ultra-high-speed cannon and computer models to simulate asteroid collisions, researchers from Brown University show how Vesta may have gotten the deep grooves that…
Images by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft reveal the existence of a large impact crater on the unseen side of the Lutetia asteroid. Rosetta flew past Lutetia…
This coming Sunday a twenty meter asteroid called 2014 RC will safely pass near Earth at a distance of about 25,000 miles. A small asteroid,…
Data from the Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed a huge amount of fresh dust around NGC 2547-ID8, leaving scientists to believe that two large asteroids…
Researchers at the University of Tennessee have discovered that near-Earth asteroid 1950 DA is held together by cohesive forces called van der Waals. Researchers at…
Using infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have measured the size of an asteroid candidate (near-Earth asteroid 2011 MD) for NASA’s Asteroid Redirect…