June 2015
Finding asteroids before they find us
... one million such asteroids in dangerous orbits actually exist. The Sentinel mission will discover and track near Earth objects. The challenge So, a little over a decade ago, I joined with Apollo 9 Astronaut Rusty Schweickart, planetary scientist...
16 March 2020
Porous nature of Ryugu suggests formation from fluffy particles, new study says
..., JAXA’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft had spent a year and half taking detailed observations of this potentially hazardous near-Earth object to learn more about its chemical and physical make-up. Ryugu is a carbonaceous or c-type asteroid, a common variety...
February 2016
Defending Earth against cosmic hazards
... issue that involves the interaction of human industry and solar radiation on Earth’s atmosphere - is a form of solar threat, though this is ... are in the order of 500,000 to one million near earth objects (NEOs) of this size and that they are largely...
July 2019
Who owns outer space?
... behind? Why not adopt a model that reflects the way humans feel about the Moon and near-Earth objects - that they are ours? About the author Angela Dennis is a writer & researcher in Brisbane, Australia, who covers...
22 November 2021
NASA's asteroid impact mission due to launch Wednesday
... humanity ever find a sizeable space rock on a collision path with Earth. Blasting off on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space... into how we could deflect potentially dangerous near-Earth objects in the future.” Researchers will get ...
24 March 2023
Close approach to Earth and Moon of newly discovered asteroid
...like much warning it does illustrate how detection technologies are improving. Even if 2023 DZ2 were to hit Earth, it wouldn’t be a cataclysmic event though it could cause extreme damage locally were it to explode in the atmosphere. In 2013, a meteor...
