A team studying asteroids using CERN’s Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) proton beam has found a few complications with the idea ...
Astronomers are constantly tracking “potentially hazardous” objects in space, using advanced telescopes capable of detecting ...
The space rock is hurtling through our cosmic backyard at a zippy 26,200 miles per hour, according to the space agency.
In national security space, “dim objects” typically refer to satellites or debris that emit little energy and are hard to see with traditional sensors. Detecting and characterizing them is already ...
Most near-Earth asteroids are thought to drift in from the main asteroid belt. But a small subset may have a much closer origin: the moon. One intriguing example is 469219 Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3), an ...
My friend Larry Lebofsky has been studying asteroids since we first met as students, more than 50 years ago. Now approaching 80 years old, he still spends a ...
Installation of an experiment testing asteroid material at CERN's HiRadMat facility. (Photo: Karl-Georg Schlesinger) Millions of asteroids orbit ...
This coming July, Venus could plow through the dust generated by an asteroid breakup thousands of years ago, potentially ...