NASA Wants an International Fleet of Spacecraft to Monitor Asteroid Flyby
Asteroid Apophis is scheduled for a brief rendezvous with Earth and NASA is hoping to get a good view of the close encounter in order to prepare for potentially hazardous…
NASA’s Lucy Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids for the First Time
A NASA probe sent to observe Jupiter’s swarm of asteroids recently caught the first glimpse of its rocky targets, capturing deep-space images of four of the mysterious Trojans. What Is…
China Will Smash a Spacecraft Into This Near-Earth Asteroid in Planetary Defense Test
China has selected a small, near-Earth asteroid as the target for an upcoming mission that will help it prepare against future threats of incoming space rocks. Astronomers Could Soon Get…
Contamination Prevention Is Key as NASA Preps for Incoming Asteroid Samples
In October 2020, engineers landed a spacecraft on an asteroid 200 million miles (320 million km) from Earth and collected a rocky sample from its surface. But that wasn’t even…
An asteroid is making a close approach to Earth, and scientists are pumped
A once-in-a-decade asteroid will be whizzing past the Earth this weekend. Object 2023 DZ2 is between 140 feet and 310 feet across and is making a close approach to our…
A large asteroid is about to zip between Earth and the moon
A newly discovered asteroid up to 310 feet wide will hurtle between Earth and the moon this weekend at a speed of about 17,000 miles per hour (27,400 kilometers per…
Hubble Telescope Releases Stunning Timelapse of DART Asteroid Impact
In September 2022, NASA deliberately crashed its DART spacecraft into a small asteroid some 6.8 million miles from Earth, in an attempt to redirect its trajectory as a test-run for…
Look at this weird-shaped asteroid NASA just spotted
Asteroids are most often roughly spherical, but they do come in all sorts of odd shapes and sizes. From asteroid Ryugu which is shaped like a spinning top to asteroid…
NASA Images a Weirdly Long Asteroid
Six radar observations made of an asteroid swinging by our planet have revealed an unusually oblong space rock. The object is three times as long as it is wide—an irregular…
An asteroid just came incredibly close to Earth
An asteroid just hurtled past Earth in an event described by NASA as “one of the closest approaches by a near-Earth object ever recorded.” Asteroid 2023 BU zipped by at…