30 December 2016
NEOWISE spots two new objects heading our way
... of the Solar System passing under the main asteroid belt and past Mars until it swoops just inside... entirely known and its designation has been placed on the fuzzy line between an asteroid and a comet. As a dark body, roughly 0.5 to 1 kilometre (0.3 ...
06 October 2021
UAE aims to flyby Venus and land on an asteroid in new 5yr mission
... visit Venus on its way to exploring the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid...spend five years exploring our cosmic back yard before culminating in an asteroid landing attempt in 2033; a feat only achieved by three other ...
27 July 2016
Where did Ceres' craters go?
... has undergone a significant geological evolution in its past. Ceres is the largest object in the Main Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, so accordingly, it is expected to be heavily cratered. However, research conducted by a team of scientists...
October 2020
Morality, rights and responsibilities in space
... set of values – not necessarily on enforceable rules and laws. It is calculated that the iron in asteroid 16 Psyche, one of the most massive asteroids in the asteroid belt, could be worth US$10,000 quadrillion. NASA’s Psyche mission will explore the...
21 February 2020
MMX mission gets green light to land on Phobos
...and Deimos are two asteroids captured by Mars’s gravity as they were scattered inwards from the asteroid belt. This is a popular... Hayabusa 2 mission which saw the spacecraft touch the asteroid surface only briefly to gather a minimal sample of ...
30 November 2015
“Alien Megastructure” Star's Dimming was Possibly Caused by Comets
... light curve observed by Kepler further disfavors the scenarios involving a catastrophic collision in a KIC 8462852 asteroid belt, a giant impact disrupting a planet in the system or a population of dust-enshrouded planetesimals," Marengo and his...
