Asteroids, sometimes called minor planets, are rocky, airless remnants left over from the early formation of our solar system. Nasa releases images.

NASA has identified a newly discovered asteroid, 2024 YR4, that has a 1.2% chance of colliding with Earth on December 22, ...

NASA’s Lucy mission will continue its journey to explore the Jupiter Trojan asteroids, which share Jupiter’s orbit around the ...

SBE is an OSI layer 6 presentation for encoding and decoding binary application messages for low-latency financial applications. This repository contains the reference implementations in Java, C++, ...

seeks to validate a method to protect Earth from the threat of an asteroid impact. By smashing a spacecraft into the smaller ...

In the United States, funding for planetary defense has long had strong bipartisan support both inside and outside of ...

ESA’s Hera mission is two-year flight to the Didymos binary asteroid system. See its trajectory here. Credit: ESA - European Space Agency ...

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory monitors asteroid 2022 CE2, expected to safely pass Earth on January 16, 2025. The 370-foot-wide asteroid will come within 2,640,000 miles, over 16 times the ...

An enormous asteroid potentially larger than the Washington Monument is due to zip past our planet today. For comparison, the Washington Monument is about 555 feet tall, the Golden Gate Bridge is ...

Asteroid impact sulfur release less lethal in dinosaur extinction. ScienceDaily . Retrieved February 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 01 / 250116133822.htm ...

NASA is currently monitoring asteroid 2024 PT5, which is passing by Earth this month at a safe distance. Discovered in August 2024, the 33-foot-wide object has followed a path similar to Earth’s, ...

A massive asteroid, 2022 CE2, is set to make a close flyby of Earth on Thursday. The 370-foot asteroid will travel at an astounding speed of 47,721 km/h but poses no threat, passing at a safe ...