Planetary defense
NASA warns that a 98ft plane-sized asteroid is heading towards Earth soon
NASA’s vigilant eyes in the sky have detected an asteroid, designated as 2024 LB4, that is projected to make a ...
Stunning Fireball Over Spain and Portugal Tracked by Lightning Imager From Space
ESA’s fireball camera in Cáceres, Spain, captured this stunning meteor on Saturday night, May 18, 2024. Credit: ESA/PDO/AMS82 – AllSky7 ...
How Scientists Are Preparing for Apophis’s Unnervingly Close Brush With Earth
In about five years’ time, a potentially hazardous asteroid will swing by Earth at an eerily close distance of less ...
NASA’s Planetary Radar Images Asteroid As It Approaches Earth
The day before asteroid 2008 OS7 made its close approach with Earth on Feb. 2, this series of images was ...
The Asteroid Dimorphos Looks Totally Different After NASA’s DART Mission Walloped It
In September 2022, a NASA spacecraft smashed into a tiny asteroid to nudge it off its orbital course. The mission ...
Racing To Track Asteroid 2024 BX1’s Collision Course With Earth
Veteran asteroid hunter Sárneczky’s discovery of an incoming asteroid led to a coordinated global response, culminating in the successful observation ...
Small Asteroid Detected on an Imminent Collision Course With Earth
The Scout system’s prediction of asteroid 2024 BX1’s impact over Germany highlights the effectiveness of NASA’s planetary defense capabilities. Detected ...
NASA Discovers Cause of Chute Glitch in Asteroid Sample Landing
Inconsistent labels in the OSIRIS-REx landing plans are what caused the out-of-order parachute deployment during the return capsule’s descent to ...
Video Shows NASA Probe Dispatching Asteroid Capsule to Earth
A view from the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft as it dropped off its sample canister on September 24.Gif: NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona/Lockheed ...
Telescope Spots OSIRIS-REx Returning From Asteroid Bennu
NASA’s $800 million OSIRIS-REx mission launched to space in September 2016 with a simple, albeit ambitious, objective: travel to a ...
