Touching Down on Asteroid Bennu
After a careful approach, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft’s arm reached out and touched asteroid Bennu, on October 20,
Unlimited Resources from Asteroid Mining
In a few years we will have unlimited resources from space. From asteroid mining.
Dinosaur-dooming Asteroid crashed at ‘the deadliest possible angle’
Asteroid that destroyed the dinosaurs 66million years ago struck Earth at ‘deadliest possible’ angle of 60 degrees.
Powerful Thruster is Prepared for Mission to Asteroid
After undergoing a series of performance and environmental tests, NASA’s Evolutionary Xenon Thruster – Commercial (NEXT-C) is being prepared for the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) Mission,
Asteroids Size Comparison
In this video, the sizes of some asteroids compared to New York City.
World’s Oldest Known Impact Crater
Scientists have discovered Earth’s oldest asteroid strike occurred at Yarrabubba, in outback Western Australia, and coincided with the end of a global deep freeze known as a
An Asteroid Collision changed Life on Earth forever
Scientists confirm that dust from a giant asteroid crash, some 460 million years ago, caused an ancient ice age.
Japan Landed a Spacecraft on an Asteroid
Japan’s Hayabusa-2 probe successfully landed on the asteroid’s Ryugu surface.
Peculiar Mountain Ahuna Mons on Asteroid Ceres
The unusual mountain Ahuna Mons is the largest mountain on the largest known asteroid in our Solar System, Ceres.
Hubble Watches Asteroid Coming Apart
A small asteroid was caught in the process of spinning so fast it’s throwing off material, according to new data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and other