NASA reviews the past 12 months of NEOWISE discoveries with a short video that shows…
Browsing: Asteroid
An asteroid is a small, rocky object that orbits the Sun, primarily found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, though they can be found throughout the solar system. Ranging in size from a few meters to hundreds of kilometers across, asteroids are remnants from the early formation of the solar system over 4.5 billion years ago. Studying these ancient space rocks provides valuable insights into planetary formation and the composition of the early solar system. Asteroids also draw scientific and public interest due to their potential impact risk to Earth and their promise as future targets for space missions and resource exploration.
On January 26 asteroid 2004 BL86 will safely pass Earth at a distance of about…
A team of astronomers has revealed a new set of calculations for catastrophic disruptions of…
With Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s recent launch of the Hayabusa2 mission, NASA and other space…
This new six-minute animated video (below) details NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, Asteroid Bennu, and the formation…
Using NASA’s ultra-high-speed cannon and computer models to simulate asteroid collisions, researchers from Brown University…
Images by ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft reveal the existence of a large impact crater on the…
This coming Sunday a twenty meter asteroid called 2014 RC will safely pass near Earth…
Data from the Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed a huge amount of fresh dust around…
Researchers at the University of Tennessee have discovered that near-Earth asteroid 1950 DA is held…
Using infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have measured the size of an…
Using the Deep Space Network antenna and two other radio telescopes, astronomers were able to…
A new study from researchers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics explores the economic realities…
A newly published study reveals an ancient asteroid impact that left a crater nearly 500…
A surprise discovery shows that the remote asteroid Chariklo is surrounded by two dense and…
Hubble views the disintegration of asteroid P/2013 R3, providing detailed observations that pinpoint the process…
Using the Deep Space Network antenna, scientists have gathered new radar data on asteroid 2006…
By using precise measurements of the asteroid Itokawa, astronomers have discovered the first evidence that…