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...
24 November 2021
NASA successfully launches its DART mission
...In tandem with this test, we are preparing the Near-Earth Object Surveyor Mission, an space-based infrared telescope scheduled for... and comets that come within 30 million miles of Earth’s orbit.” The spacecraft will intercept the Didymos system ...
January 2019
Saving humanity – is space up to the job?
...the rise of mammals. Today, capable infrared telescopes in space and ground observatories are cataloguing the orbits of near Earth objects (NEOs) and monitoring the paths of potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) to predict the possibility of a major...
