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Published time: 5 Oct, 2017 08:16 Edited time: 5 Oct, 2017 08:17 A huge space rock approaching Earth is set to make a relatively close pass next week when it flies by our planet at about one-eighth of the distance to the moon. NASA said it would use the opportunity to test its ability to […]
Published time: 21 Sep, 2017 19:54 Astronomers, with the aid of the Hubble Space Telescope, have discovered a unique binary object lurking in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The object, an asteroid first discovered by Spacewatch back in 2006, was reexamined again last September. Hubble took a number of images of the asteroid, […]
Published time: 2 Sep, 2017 16:52 The largest asteroid to come so close to Earth in over a century whizzed by the planet Friday without a hitch – and revealed two tiny moons in the process. The highly anticipated asteroid ‘3122 Florence,’ measuring a whopping 2.8 miles (4.5 kilometers) in width, came within 4.4 million […]
Ten years after the Dawn spacecraft left the comfort of Earth, we’re checking in on the righteous, ion-powered machine. https://media.wired.com/photos/598df61ebc38743d3cde6b72/master/pass/Satellite-PIA20919.jpg Feed: All Latest
Published time: 10 Aug, 2017 20:05 An asteroid set to whizz past Earth in October will miss our planet by 44,000 kilometers, according to new observations which spotted the wandering space rock for the first time in five years. Asteroid 2012 TC4 was discovered in 2012 by the Pan-STARRS observatory in Hawaii. During the original […]
To date, astronomers haven’t seen asteroid families (that is, asteroids with a common source) in the Solar System older than about 3 billion years — well after the star system came to be 4.5 billion years ago. However, they’ll have to rethink their expectations. Researchers studying asteroid data (including infrared radiation from the WISE space […]
Luxembourg’s parliament has voted in favor of passing an asteroid mining law that give companies ownership of what they extract from the celestial bodies. The European country has been working on the bill since 2016 and originally intended to pass it earlier this year. It took a bit more time to iron things out, but […]
A world-killing asteroid is heading towards Earth, so we made sure to keep our Comic-Con interview with Salvation‘s Charlie Rowe and Santiago Cabrera short and to the point. As CBS’ summertime newbie enters Week 3 (airing Wednesdays at 9/8c), our first order of business was checking in on the fate of Liam’s sweet romance with […]
CBS launches this Wednesday night Salvation, its new summertime thriller about a planet-killing asteroid. Did it make an impact, deep or otherwise? Setting things in motion, MIT grad student Liam Cole (played by Red Band Society‘s Charlie Rowe) is enjoying the afterglow of one of the cutest meet-cutes, with wannabe sci-fi author Jillian (Roadies‘ Jacqueline […]
NASA is one step closer to testing its proposed line of defence against the threat of a potential asteroid impact on Earth. The “kinetic impactor technique” essentially involves smashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to bounce it away from the Earth. Which sounds a lot saner than the plan hatched in Armageddon of sending oil […]
