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
Images of NASA-Damaged Asteroid Coming Our Way as OSIRIS Completes Flyby
8 Apr 2021, 11:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's OSIRIS spacecraft completed its last flyby of asteroid Bennu, Earth now waiting for the captured images to make it back home
NASA Spacecraft Damaged an Asteroid, Soon We’ll Know Just How Much
2 Apr 2021, 08:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's OSIRIS spacecraft to conduct a close flyby of the Bennu asteroid on April 7 to see the damage it caused while collecting samples
Asteroid Apophis to Leave Earth Alone for a Century, Still Scary-Close in 2029
1 Apr 2021, 07:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Asteroid Apophis is not in the position to strike Earth in 2068, will still make a scary 20,000 miles flyby of Earth in 2029
Psyche Is NASA’s Next Target, Spacecraft Bound for It Cleared for Assembly
7 Feb 2021, 18:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA planning a mission to study the Psyche asteroid in the asteroid belt, spacecraft meant for it was cleared for assembly
Spaceship With Impossible Name Coming Back to Earth With Asteroid Samples
27 Jan 2021, 15:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA says the OSIRIS-Rex sample collection spacecraft will begin its journey home on May 10, will arrive on Earth in 2023
Alien Technology Passed Earth in 2017 With Oumuamua, Professor Avi Loeb Explains
6 Jan 2021, 09:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Chair of Harvard’s Department of Astronomy stands by his old theory that Oumuamua was no regular asteroid but a piece of alien debris
Japan Lands Spacecraft on an Asteroid a Second Time, Photos Show the Alien World
12 Jul 2019, 08:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Hayabusa2 mission lands on Asteroid Ryugu for a second time, this time sends back more and much clearer photos of the asteroid surface
Asteroid Apophis Nears Earth on April 13, 2029, Spacecraft Could Greet It
1 May 2019, 14:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On Friday, April 13, 2029 an asteroid named after the Egyptian God of Chaos will come 31,000 km (19,000 miles) from Earth
Asteroid Heading for Earth in NASA Tabletop Exercise
25 Apr 2019, 09:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / According to the scenario a potentially hazardous asteroid was discovered on March 26, and has a 1 in 100 chance of hitting the Earth
Japan Bombed an Asteroid and There’s Video to Prove It
24 Apr 2019, 15:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Hayabusa2 drops a 2.5-kg copper projectile onto asteroid Ryugu to form a crater and collect sample that are to be sent to Earth
SpaceX to Launch NASA’s DART Asteroid Deflector
15 Apr 2019, 15:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / SPaceX selected by NASA to launch the Double Asteroid Redirection Test in space in early 2021 as the first human attempt to change course of a space rock
NASA Finds Traces of Water on Asteroid Bennu
11 Dec 2018, 08:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA believes Bennu, a carbonaceous primitive B-type asteroid, had some time in the past been part of a much larger body capable of holding liquid water
OSIRIS Spacecraft Reaches Asteroid Bennu to Pick Up Samples
4 Dec 2018, 12:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / OSIRIS Spacecraft will soon begin operations around the Bennu asteroid in its attempt to pick up a sample and bring it back to Earth
Japanese Robots Touch Down on Asteroid, Send Back Photos
24 Sep 2018, 12:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Hayabusa2 mission is off to a flying start on the asteroid Ryugu, as this weekend two tiny robots landed on the rock
Photo of Asteroid Bennu Taken by OSIRIS
31 Aug 2018, 13:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer takes photo of asteroid Bennu.
OSIRIS Spacecraft Approaches Asteroid Bennu for Sample Return Mission
21 Aug 2018, 12:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA to announce new developments in the OSIRIS-Rex asteroid sample return mission in a press conference to be held on Friday.
Oumuamua Interstellar Object Accelerated and Changed Course in Our Solar System
28 Jun 2018, 08:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA, ESA and other scientists release additional information about the Oumuamua Interstellar Object, now calling it an active comet.
NASA Readies Ten Years Plan to Save the Earth from Killer Asteroids
21 Jun 2018, 07:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / NASA publishes The National Near-Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan, meant to develop the tools and procedures for asteroid detection.