Undetected, Dangerous Asteroids Could Be Lurking in Venus’s Orbit
Space can be a dangerous place, with massive rocks hurling through the solar system at fast speeds, some…
Venus could be hiding an invisible danger for Earth
Space is a vast place full of mysteries. And scientists have identified invisible dangers to Earth located near…
What Webb Is Teaching Us About Our Solar System
Episode description: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is hard at work answering our biggest questions about the birth…
Catastrophic disruption of asteroid 2023 CX1 and implications for planetary defence
Brown, P. G. et al. A 500-kiloton airburst over Chelyabinsk and an enhanced hazard from small impactors. Nature…
See A Once-A-Decade Event As Huge Asteroid Flies Close To Earth
2025 FA22 was discovered using the Pan-STARRS 2 telescope in March this year. getty A near-Earth asteroid the…
Regions on Asteroid Explored by NASA’s Lucy Mission
The IAU (International Astronomical Union), an international non-governmental research organization and global naming authority for celestial objects, has…
Asteroid ice discovery may change ideas about origin of water on Earth
The parent body of near-Earth asteroid Ryugu appears to have harbored water in the form of ice for…
Late fluid flow in a primitive asteroid revealed by Lu–Hf isotopes in Ryugu
DeMeo, F. E. et al. Connecting asteroids and meteorites with visible and near-infrared spectroscopy. Icarus 380, 114971 (2022).…
China’s dual-use asteroid-collision research threatens satellites
China has unveiled its mission to impact deliberately a near-Earth asteroid by 2030 – a decisive step toward…