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Asteroids Hitting the Moon Is Not Something We’d Like to See for Real
Asteroids Hitting the Moon Is Not Something We’d Like to See for Real

2 Dec 2021, 15:48 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Simulation video shows how asteroid impacts on the Moon may appear as seen from here on Earth, sight is truly frightening

 
Psyche Mission Going After Metal Planetary Cores, Cool Blue Light Is What Makes It Go
Psyche Mission Going After Metal Planetary Cores, Cool Blue Light Is What Makes It Go

27 Nov 2021, 11:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Psyche mission is set to depart in the summer of 2022 and travel 300 million miles (480 million km) to meet with an nickel-iron planet core

 
Fastest Orbiting Asteroid in Our Solar System Has Uncertain Origins and Explosive Future
Fastest Orbiting Asteroid in Our Solar System Has Uncertain Origins and Explosive Future

9 Oct 2021, 10:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Named 2021 PH27, a recently-dsicovered asteroid moves around the Sun once every 113 days, making it the fastest of its kind that we know of

 
The UAE Will Send a Spacecraft on a 2.2 Billion-Mile Journey to Explore the Asteroid Belt
The UAE Will Send a Spacecraft on a 2.2 Billion-Mile Journey to Explore the Asteroid Belt

6 Oct 2021, 21:40 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / The United Arab Emirates has recently announced plans to launch a new interplanetary mission to explore the asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter

 
NASA Spacecraft Will Use Solar Electric Propulsion to Reach Rare Metal Asteroid
NASA Spacecraft Will Use Solar Electric Propulsion to Reach Rare Metal Asteroid

22 Sep 2021, 00:39 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / NASA's Psyche spacecraft will use solar electric propulsion for the first time to get to an unusual metal-rich asteroid, located 1.5 billion miles away.

 
We May Know Where the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Came From. How Does That Help Us?
We May Know Where the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Came From. How Does That Help Us?

19 Sep 2021, 09:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A team of scientists believe to have pinpointed the origin of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, also say that region of space is very active

 
Martian Impact Crater Looks Like a Huge Gladiator Arena Shot From a Drone
Martian Impact Crater Looks Like a Huge Gladiator Arena Shot From a Drone

5 Sep 2021, 07:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / An impact crater on the Martian surface, seen through the HiRISE camera orbiting hundreds of miles above the planet, looks like a gladiator arena

 
Interstellar Adventure "JETT" Tasks You With Finding a New Home for Humanity
Interstellar Adventure "JETT" Tasks You With Finding a New Home for Humanity

27 Aug 2021, 23:19 UTC · By: Cosmin Vasile / Carve out the future of your people in an unusual interstellar action adventure that will alight on PC, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5 on October 5

 
The Solar System Keeps Throwing Rocks at Us. Next Year, We’ll Throw Something Back
The Solar System Keeps Throwing Rocks at Us. Next Year, We’ll Throw Something Back

22 Aug 2021, 08:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Come next fall, humans will know for sure if asteroid deflection is something that can be considered in the fight to defend our planet from space rocks

 
Humans Poked an Asteroid. Next Century, the Asteroid Might Poke Back
Humans Poked an Asteroid. Next Century, the Asteroid Might Poke Back

21 Aug 2021, 09:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After crunching in all the number from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, NASA is confident it now know more about the possible trajectories of asteroid Bennu

 
NASA Will Try to Deflect an Asteroid, Space Impact Coming Next Fall
NASA Will Try to Deflect an Asteroid, Space Impact Coming Next Fall

17 Aug 2021, 11:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft "ready to complete its final system testing and reviews before shipping to the launch site."

 
Chances of Hazardous Asteroid Hitting Earth Are Higher Than Scientists Thought
Chances of Hazardous Asteroid Hitting Earth Are Higher Than Scientists Thought

12 Aug 2021, 09:31 UTC · By: Florina Spînu / In a new study published on Tuesday in the journal Icarus, NASA has used data from the agency's OSIRIS spacecraft to better estimate Bennu's orbital trajectory.

 
Ghost Crater Shows Skid Mark-Like Features in This Photo From Mars
Ghost Crater Shows Skid Mark-Like Features in This Photo From Mars

2 Aug 2021, 15:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter HiRISE camera captures a so-called ghost crater in a Martian region called Utopia Planitia, edge looks like skid marks

 
NASA's Time Capsule on the Lucy Spacecraft Carries Messages for Future Humans
NASA's Time Capsule on the Lucy Spacecraft Carries Messages for Future Humans

19 Jul 2021, 09:45 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / NASA has put together a time capsule that will go to space aboard the Lucy spacecraft, carrying inspiring messages for the humans of the future.

 
Killer Satellites Ramming Into Asteroids Could Save the Earth From a Catastrophe
Killer Satellites Ramming Into Asteroids Could Save the Earth From a Catastrophe

5 Jul 2021, 11:23 UTC · By: Otilia Drăgan / Only 3 years left until a potential asteroid impact, and the fastest solution to prevent it would involve turning commercial satellites into "rams"

 
ESA Spacecraft to Rush Toward Asteroid to See How NASA Deflection Mission Went
ESA Spacecraft to Rush Toward Asteroid to See How NASA Deflection Mission Went

6 Jun 2021, 07:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The European Space Agency will send a mission to the asteroid NASA is planning to impact and divert a bit to see the damage

 
There Are 25K Asteroids Out There, and NASA Proved We Can’t Stop a Single One
There Are 25K Asteroids Out There, and NASA Proved We Can’t Stop a Single One

5 Jun 2021, 07:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA released the latest near-Earth asteroid count: there are over 25,000 that we know of, and possibly 15,000 more we know nothing about

 
Animation Shows NASA’s Plan to Smash a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid to Deflect It
Animation Shows NASA’s Plan to Smash a Spacecraft Into an Asteroid to Deflect It

23 May 2021, 06:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA is getting ready to send a spacecraft on a collision course with an asteroid to see how impact could change the celestial body's trajectory

 
Asteroid Hits Europe as NASA and Others Unable to Stop It in Impact Game
Asteroid Hits Europe as NASA and Others Unable to Stop It in Impact Game

15 May 2021, 08:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The 7th IAA Planetary Defense Conference simulated impact game found that with our current technology we would be unable to stop asteroids from hitting Earth

 
NASA Is Playing Asteroid Impact Games to See How the World Would React
NASA Is Playing Asteroid Impact Games to See How the World Would React

27 Apr 2021, 08:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA, JPL, and ESA come together in Vienna to develop another response scenario in case of high chance of asteroid impact