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'God of Destruction' asteroid Apophis will come to Earth in 2029 — and it could meet some tiny...
Space via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAsteroid Apophis is heading to Earth, and scientists have revealed three tiny spacecraft concepts...
A rare risk of asteroid fastballs turns scientists into sluggers
Salon.com· 14 hours agoAs Andy Rivkin, one of the team leaders, was getting ready to appear in NASA’s live broadcast of the...
A massive, icy Mars crater stares up at a Red Planet orbiter (image)
SPACE.com· 6 hours agoA massive Mars impact crater dominates a new view from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO). The...
Car-size asteroid gives Earth a close shave in near-miss flyby (video, photo)
Space via Yahoo News· 2 days ago(Image credit: ESA) The space rock belongs to the Apollo asteroid group, whose orbits intersect with...
How a New Methodology Rewrites the Age Book for Asteroids
SciTechDaily· 5 days agoAn asteroid discovered last November is in fact a solar system toddler – just 2-3 million years old, a Cornell University-led research ...
NASA confirms 1,000-foot-wide 'God of Destruction' asteroid will approach Earth
TweakTown· 4 days agoNASA confirmed that a 1,000-foot-wide asteroid named after a 'God of Destruction' will approach...
A New Theory Offers an Explosive Explanation for Earth's Mysterious Blobs
Popular Mechanics via Yahoo News· 3 days agoIn the early days of the solar system, Earth as we know it today would’ve been completely...
32 strange places scientists are looking for aliens
Live Science via Yahoo News· 5 days agoFrom planets and moons in our solar system to dying stars and parallel universes, here are some of the far-out places scientists are searching for alien...
New photos show Jupiter's tiny moon Amalthea
Phys.org· 3 hours agoBy now, we're all used to seeing amazing photos of Jupiter courtesy of NASA's Juno mission on a routine basis. Many of these are processed by volunteer...
Outdoing the dinosaurs: What we can do if we spot a threatening asteroid
Ars Technica· 7 days agoIn 2005, the United States Congress laid out a clear mandate: To protect our civilization and...