In an alternate reality playing out at this year’s international Planetary Defense Conference, a fictional asteroid crashes over Europe, ‘destroying’ a region about 100 km wide near…
Read the articleA small asteroid flying past Earth on 12 October will provide scientists with a valuable opportunity to learn more about its orbit and composition. The campaign…
Read the articleOccator Crater on Ceres is home to the brightest area on the entire dwarf planet. At 57 miles (92 kilometers) wide and 2.5 miles (4 kilometers)…
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Read the articleJune 30 has been declared by the United Nations to be International Asteroid Day. To celebrate the day, there will be a 24-hour global telethon with…
Read the articleWhat would we do if we discovered a large asteroid on course to impact Earth? While highly unlikely, that was the high-consequence scenario discussed by attendees…
Read the articleIn the tens of thousands of photos returned by NASA’s Dawn spacecraft, the interior of Ceres isn’t visible. But scientists have powerful data to study Ceres’…
Read the articleESA is participating in today’s international Asteroid Day, to mark the largest observed asteroid strike in recorded history – the 1908 airburst above Tunguska in Siberia.…
Read the articlePlanetary Resources, Inc., the asteroid mining company, announced on June 13, 2016, that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Government of the Grand…
Read the articleAsteroid Day is an annual global movement to increase public awareness of potential asteroid impacts with Earth, and the importance of guarding against them. It was…
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