Hydrogen Cars Are Dead As Projects Are Scrapped and Refueling Prices Go Through the Roof
This Black Dot Is a Piece of Asteroid Heading for Earth, It Comes in a Spaceship
21 Sep 2023, 08:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Just a few days are left until the OSIRIS-REx spaceship drops a capsule containing an asteroid sample, Europeans snatch it on film as it approaches
Spaceship With Asteroid Bits Is Getting Closer, NASA Preps Army of Scientists to Handle It
21 Jun 2023, 11:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The OSIRIS-REx spaceship is on track to deliver bits of asteroid Bennu to Earth this fall, NASA is making the finishing touches to handle them
NASA on Track to Launch Metal Asteroid-Hunting Spaceship in October 2023
6 Jun 2023, 13:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says it clear an independent board review, and the Psyche mission to the namesake metal asteroid is on track to depart this fall
Earth Is Diving Head-On and Blind in a Sea of Deadly Asteroids and You Didn't Even Know It
19 Apr 2023, 12:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA releases the 2023 National Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan for Near-Earth Object Hazards and Planetary Defense, details on asteroid numbers
Piece of Asteroid Heading for Utah Onboard Spacecraft Has Scientists Scrambling
28 Mar 2023, 12:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA teams across the nation are getting ready for the arrival of a piece of asteroid Bennu in September, delivered by parachute in the Utah desert
Three Weeks Warning Is All We Get From New Telescope Hunting Chelyabinsk-Sized Asteroids
17 Feb 2023, 12:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency (ESA) is planning a new asteroid hunting telescope that will be able to detect rocks as small as 20 meters (66 feet) across
“You Are Marvelous” Is the First, Unexpected Asteroid Target of the Lucy Spacecraft
14 Feb 2023, 12:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA and the team handling the Lucy spacecraft gave a name to the first asteroid to be visited later this year, and it's Dinkinesh
Webb Telescope Spots 650-Foot Asteroid 62 Million Miles Away, And It Wasn’t Even Trying
7 Feb 2023, 10:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / European scientists looking at calibration data from the James Webb Space Telescope discovered a 650 feet main belt asteroid, the smallest seen by the Webb
Lucy Spacecraft Will Detour to Check Out the Smallest Main Belt Rock We’ve Ever Visited
27 Jan 2023, 10:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Team behind the Lucy spacecraft has expanded the scope of the mission by adding a new target asteroid to be visited well ahead of the original schedule
Truck-Sized Asteroid About to Make Close Pass Over South America, Has Astronomers Talking
26 Jan 2023, 10:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A recently-discovered small asteroid is about to make a very close pass over our planet on January 26, NASA says it will not impact
NASA’s New Near-Earth Objects Tracker Will See Even the Sneakiest of Space Rocks
23 Dec 2022, 09:19 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The NEO Surveyor, the first telescope purpose-built to look for near-Earth objects, moves into final design-and-fabrication phase
Spacecraft Is Speeding Towards Earth, Will Drop Something Alien Into Our Atmosphere
18 Oct 2022, 08:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA scientists have begun correcting the course of the OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft as it heads back to drop to the surface a piece of asteroid Bennu
NASA's DART Mission Was a Success, Asteroid's Orbit Has Changed
12 Oct 2022, 10:32 UTC · By: Sebastian Toma / NASA has confirmed that a thorough analysis of data over the past two weeks has shown that its DART mission was a success. Here's what you need to know
This Is the Last Thing a NASA Spacecraft Saw Before Hitting an Asteroid at 14,000 MPH
4 Oct 2022, 06:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA published the "last complete image of the asteroid Dimorphos, as seen by our Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) two seconds before impact."
NASA’s DART Impact Lit Asteroid Up Like a Christmas Tree, Kept It So for Hours
30 Sep 2022, 08:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble both captured still from before the DART impact on a distant asteroid, first pic released
Asteroid Takes a 14,000 MPH Punch From the Human Race, Suicidal DART Spacecraft Is No More
27 Sep 2022, 05:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA confirmed the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impacted its target asteroid as it should, with a speed of 14,000 mph (22,530 kph)
SpaceX-Launched Space Bullets Could One Day Kill Sneaky Asteroids Before They Kill Us
17 Sep 2022, 01:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts idea explores how a range of small hypervelocity kinetic penetrators could stop asteroids from destroying Earth
En Route to Poke an Asteroid, DART Spacecraft Had a Baby
16 Sep 2022, 13:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) deploys the LICIACube double camera satellite to document its impact with an asteroid on September 26
Here’s the Didymos Asteroid, Doesn’t Know Humans Have Bad Things Planned for It
8 Sep 2022, 12:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's DART spacecraft captured its first images of the Dimorphos asteroid it'll smash into back in July, compiled pic just released by the space agency
DART Is Not NASA's First Mission To Crash Into an Asteroid, Let's Take a Look Back
4 Sep 2022, 16:43 UTC · By: Angela Balaciu / NASA has a long history of investigating asteroids and comets, as well as just smashing into them, sometimes because they wanted to