Good news: Threatening asteroid won’t impact Earth in 2052
The asteroid 2021 QM1, marked as one of the most threatening to our planet, won’t hit Earth after all.
NASA launches new tech to better track near-Earth asteroids
NASA has launched new technology to help scientists better track near-Earth asteroids and more accurately assess their risk to our planet.
NASA gears up to launch a spacecraft that will crash into an asteroid
Most space missions don’t intend to crash their spacecraft. But that’s just what NASA has in mind for its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission.
See the 42 biggest asteroids in our solar system in stunning detail
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released images of 42 of the largest asteroids in the asteroid belt, showing their variety of sizes and shapes.
This tiny satellite will use a solar sail to investigate an asteroid
Following the success of Bill Nye’s solar sail craft, LightSail 2, NASA plans to launch its own solar sail craft to investigate near-Earth asteroids.
What space agencies learned from a simulated asteroid impact
This week, space agencies from around the world came together to figure out how to respond if a large asteroid were to strike Earth.
After six years and millions of miles, a capsule with an asteroid sample lands on Earth
In the immortal words of Will Smith: Welcome to Earth. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has successfully completed its mission to bring a piece of the asteroid Ryugu back…
Asteroid heading toward Earth may actually be a very old rocket
A NASA expert believes that an object originally classified as an asteroid may in fact be part of a rocket that launched from Earth in 1966.