On 23 June 2025, the world will get a look at the first images from one of the most powerful telescopes ever…
Browsing: asteroids
In late 2017, a mysterious object tore through our solar system at breakneck speed. Astronomers scrambled to observe the fast moving body…
Ah, Asteroids. One of the most iconic games of the shady underbelly of arcades is turning 46. So of course, Atari…
The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike…
On September 4 2024, astronomers discovered an asteroid, one metre in diameter, heading towards Earth. The space rock would burn…
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…