On September 4 2024, astronomers discovered an asteroid, one metre in diameter, heading towards Earth. The space rock would burn…
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Launched in 2011, NASA’s NEOWISE mission operated in Earth’s orbit until late last week. It detected more than 3,000 near-Earth objects or NEOs –…
NASA’s DART mission – Double Asteroid Redirection Test – was humanity’s first real-world planetary defence mission. In September 2022, the DART spacecraft…
Earth is constantly bombarded by fragments of rock and ice, also known as meteoroids, from outer space. Most of the…
A frequent idea in sci-fi and apocalyptic films is that of an asteroid striking Earth and causing global devastation. While…
On September 24 this year, a Nasa capsule parachuted down to Earth carrying a precious cache of material grabbed from…
How did life come about? The answer to this question goes to the very heart of our existence on planet…
There are hundreds of millions of asteroids in our Solar System, which means new asteroids are discovered quite frequently. It also means close…
If you surfed the web this morning, you may have seen news of the latest existential threat to humanity: a…
Nasa’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (Dart) spacecraft is designed to be a one hit wonder. It will end its days by crashing…