<p></p> <p>Occator Crater on Ceres is home to the brightest area on the entire dwarf planet.</p> <p>At 57 miles (92 kilometers) wide and 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) deep, Occator displays evidence of
<p></p> <p>NASA is hunting for Near-Earth Objects, while also working on ways to defend Earth against them.… <a href="https://www.nightskyobserver.com/asteroids-and-neos/hunting-for-asteroids/" class="read-more"><b>Read the rest of this article</b> </a></p>
<p></p> <p>June 30 has been declared by the United Nations to be International Asteroid Day.</p> <p>To celebrate the day, there will be a 24-hour global telethon with scientists, astronauts space agencies and
<p></p> <p>ESA is participating in today’s international <a href="http://asteroidday.org/" target="_blank">Asteroid Day</a>, to mark the largest observed asteroid strike in recorded history – the 1908 airburst above Tunguska in Siberia. The Agency
<p></p> <p>Asteroid 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 co-founded in 2015 by
<p style="text-align:center"></p> Probe Will Assist Agency in Search for Candidates to Explore <p>NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE), a spacecraft that made the most comprehensive survey to date of asteroids
<p style="text-align:center"></p> <p>Watch the NASA TV coverage of the asteroid redirection systems session of the NASA-hosted public workshop at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston to examine 96 of the
<p style="text-align:center"><br /> <em>This artist’s conception shows how families of asteroids are created. Over the history of our solar system, catastrophic collisions between asteroids located in the belt between Mars and
<p><br /> <em>NASA is tracking a large near-Earth asteroid as it passes by the Earth-Moon system on May 31st. Amateur astronomers in the northern hemisphere may be able to see the
<p>Comets visible to the naked eye are a rare delicacy in the celestial smorgasbord of objects in the nighttime sky. Scientists estimate that the opportunity to see one of these