18 January 2019
Asteroid impacts on the increase since the age of the dinosaurs
... to 3.8 billion years ago. Trying to establish how often asteroids have struck the Earth since then is very hard to work... causing rocks to rain down on us. So, with an increase in asteroid strikes on the horizon, how does that bode for us humans, ...
25 October 2019
Ride-sharing mission hopes to study asteroid up close
..., reiterating: "It will miss us. But it will be very close. And Apophis is the kind of object called a potentially hazardous asteroid that probably, in the long term - tens of thousands [or] millions of years in the future - probably will hit the...
16 October 2020
SWRI tests "Clockwork Starfish" for sampling asteroids
... mission carrying dozens of micro-sampler landers like these could return samples from various locations on numerous asteroids,” said SwRI Principal Scientist Dr. Alex Parker, who led development of the Clockwork Starfish device. “This would...
06 October 2021
UAE aims to flyby Venus and land on an asteroid in new 5yr mission
... is scheduled to launch in 2028, and will spend five years exploring our cosmic back yard before culminating in an asteroid landing attempt in 2033; a feat only achieved by three other space agencies to date. Along the way, the...
04 December 2020
Asteroid sample from Hayabusa2 to land on Earth 6 December
...surface. Ryugu appears to be a “rubble pile” carbonaceous asteroid that has coalesced from scraps of rock set loose when ... its way to 1998KY26, a nearly spherical sub-kilometre asteroid located between the orbits of Earth and Mars. The spacecraft...
05 April 2019
Hayabusa2 probe 'bombs' asteroid to create a crater
... was intended to carve out a 10 metre-wide hole in the asteroid after it was fired toward Ryugu’s surface at up to 2 kilometres... the three landers it released last year to explore the asteroid’s surface. After dropping the impactor, Hayabusa-2 had 40 ...
