03 July 2020
More metal on the Moon than previously thought, new study suggests
... would exist," says Heggy, who is coinvestigator of the Mini-RF experiments. The discovery led to the realisation that meteors that form larger craters also carve out more of the surface material, which in turn exposes more...
11 October 2021
Disrupting Earth-bound asteroids with nukes is “very effective”, new study says
... popular by the film Armageddon; a disaster movie that centres around a crew of oil drillers sent to space to stop a meteor hurtling toward earth by blowing it up with a nuclear bomb. While the film is fictional, using a nuclear bomb to disrupt...
24 March 2023
Close approach to Earth and Moon of newly discovered asteroid
...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 a little less than a third of the size of the newly discovered space rock exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia...
29 March 2018
Northern Arizona Space Training
...-white photos with extended captions grouped into seven chapters that cover the programme from training in Meteor Crater to exploring the Moon itself; in between, we find astronauts hiking through Grand Canyon, explosives engineers creating...
12 February 2019
Fleet Space Technologies hits major milestone with Project Galaxy
...-standard protocol, LoRa, as part of the LoRa Alliance’s 500 member ecosystem, has fuelled Fleet Space Technologies’ meteoric growth. “For years, the market has faced systems that are too expensive, plagued with limited...
30 June 2019
Asteroid day 2019
... official day of education, initiated in part by a need to better understand the role of asteroids, following the 15 February, 2013 meteor impact in Chelyabinsk, Russia. “Our goal is to dedicate one day each year to learn about asteroids, the origins...
