Asteroid News

Many are preparing to draw closer together on Thanksgiving, and that includes space interaction as well. Comet ISON, which has more popularly been referred to as the...

Hubble Telescope Spots Six-Tailed Asteroid

Astronomers today announced that an asteroid with six "comet-like" tails has been discovered. The asteroid, currently nam...

Dangerous Asteroid Buzzes Earth, Will Return

A dangerous asteroid came relatively close to Earth last month, in an incident NASA calls a "reality check."...

xkcd Author Gets Asteroid Named After Him

Considering the background of Randall Munroe, the creator of the highly successful xkcd web comic, perhaps this shouldn...

NASA Reactivates WISE in Search For Deadly Asteroids

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope ran out of coolant in the fall of 2010. Though the telescope...

NASA Reviews Asteroid Capture Mission Ideas

Back in June, NASA issued a "Grand Challenge" to catalogue all of the near-Earth asteroids that could potentially threaten life...

NASA Has Now Found 10,000 Near-Earth Objects

NASA this week announced that it has now discovered more than 10,000 near-Earth objects -...

NASA Issues ‘Grand Challenge’ to Combat Killer Asteroids

NASA and astronomers around the world have been tracking asteroids for decades now. Though asteroids seem to be constantly be...

Asteroid 1998 QE2 Has Its Own Moon, Will Pass ‘Close’ to Earth

While NASA promises us the latest asteroid to pass close to our planet is no threat, the fact that a moon was discovered in rotation around Asteroid 1998 QE2, does give us an idea...

Russian Meteor Blast Explained by NASA [VIDEO]

On February 15, when the world's astronomers were busy watching Asteroid 2012 DA14 make a close flyby of Earth, a dif...

Russia Meteor Blast Being Assessed by the ESA

Last week, as astronomers around the world turned their attention toward the passing asteroid 2012 DA14, a meteorite...

Google Briefly Ran an Asteroid-Themed Doodle but Quickly Pulled It After the Events in Russia

Today, in celebration of asteroid 2012 DA14's near miss of Earth, Go...

Meteorite Falls in Russia, Lights Up the Sky [VIDEO]

A meteorite only a few meters long fell to Earth above Chelyabinsk, Russia early this morning. The shockwave caused by the o...

NASA: Asteroid 2012 Da14 Will Not be Hitting the Earth Today

Today at around 2:20 pm EST an asteroid named 2012 da14 will come within 17,200 miles of the surface of Earth. Almos...

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