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…
Ancient tektites uncover massive asteroid impact
Back to Article List A new study re-evaluating Australian tektites uncovers a previously unrecognized cosmic collision that occurred…
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…
NASA scientists propose nuking asteroid with chance of hitting moon
One idea proposed for dealing with an asteroid with a slight chance of hitting the moon in 2032?…
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…
Hayabusa2’s 2031 Landing Plan Faces an Unexpected Asteroid Nightmare
On December 6, 2020, the Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped off pristine samples from asteroid Ryugu in the Australian outback,…
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…
Skyscraper-sized asteroid to race past Earth at high speed
Meteorite spotted in the Southern sky Dashcam footage captures a large fireball in the sky over Lexington, South…
Here’s How to Deflect a Dangerous Asteroid Without It Totally Backfiring
In September 2022, NASA deliberately crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, successfully altering the space rock’s trajectory. 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).…