On Oct. 12 EDT (Oct. 11 PDT), a small asteroid designated 2012 TC4 will safely pass by Earth at a distance of approximately 26,000 miles (42,000 kilometers). This is a little over one tenth... Read more
Employees of the Department of Celestial Mechanics and Astrometry NII PMM and colleagues from St. Petersburg State University, Keldysh Research Center, and Research Institute Sirius are deve... Read more
June 30 is Asteroid Day, a global awareness effort to promote asteroids and discussion around what can be done to protect our planet from impacts, but there may be a more likely natural thre... Read more
A software application based on an algorithm created by a NASA challenge has the potential to increase the number of new asteroid discoveries by amateur astronomers. Analysis of images taken... Read more
One solution would be to launch a relatively solid space probe designed to hit the asteroid at high speed It sounds like the script for a Hollywood film: a giant meteorite from outer space h... Read more
The purpose of the initiative is to gather more information on asteroids for mining NASA has released new concept images and animations outlining one version of its plan to capture an astero... Read more
NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. The challenge, which was announced at an asteroid ini... Read more
ARKYD is an orbiting space telescope that can be controlled by the public – its primary aim is to make space exploration accessible to anyone who is interested. Technology that would normall... Read more
NASA wants to grab a small asteroid and tow it into orbit around the moon, as part of a long-range plan towards establishing permanent manned outposts in space, according to a US senator. To... Read more
“The foundation of the asteroid grand challenge is partnerships like this one,” NASA and Planetary Resources Inc., of Bellevue, Wash., are partnering to develop crowd-sourced sof... Read more
It’s a plan to deflect a killer asteroid by using paint There is research that is off the wall, some off the charts and some off the planet, such as what a Texas A&M University aerospace... Read more
ESA is appealing for research ideas to help guide the development of a US–European asteroid deflection mission now under study. A space rock several hundred metres across is heading towards... Read more
With 20 years’ notice, paint pellets could cause an asteroid to veer off course. In the event that a giant asteroid is headed toward Earth, you’d better hope that it’s blindingly white. A pa... Read more
“Speculating that it will be in the region of “a few hundred million dollars.” California-based non-profit B612 Foundation has announced its intention to place an asteroid-... Read more
