After recently passing a critical test, NASA's Near-Earth Object (NEO) Surveyor — an infrared telescope that will search for potentially threatening asteroids — has entered the building phase.
NEO Surveyor is the successor to the space agency's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission, which discovered thousands of near-Earth objects and classified them as asteroids or comets .
UH: Rare unaltered asteroid sample gives clues to early solar system | KHON2
HONOLULU (KHON2) — Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa analyzed samples harvested from an asteroid.
Rock and mineral grains that are older than our solar system and have not been altered by Earth's atmosphere, were returned to Earth by the Hayabusa 2 mission led by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, according to UH.
NASA reveals aircraft-sized asteroid zipping towards Earth; Close encounter today | Tech News
Did you know that most of the asteroids can be found in a specific region in space? Yes, you read that right! The region is called the asteroid belt – a region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office has warned that the asteroid, named Asteroid 2022 YZ2, will make its closest approach to Earth today, January 12, at a distance of 6.4 million kilometers.
New App Lets You Destroy Hannibal & Quincy With a Huge Asteroid
What do you do with your free time? If you're feeling a bit destructive, know there's a new app that allows you to completely annihilate the Hannibal, Missouri/Quincy, Illinois area with a huge asteroid.
Credit to Space.com who first shared the story about the Asteroid Launcher app . It allows you to determine the composition (do you want iron, stone or something else?), size, launch angle and speed of the object. Then, you choose a location and boom.
The biggest space missions to look out for in 2023 | Astronomy.com
With just how exciting 2022 was when it came to space news — from the reveal of the first images taken the James Webb Space Telescope to NASA crashing the DART spacecraft into an asteroid — it may seem like 2023 will be quiet in comparison.
However, that's not the case. From expeditions throughout the solar system to new breakthroughs in commercial space travel, here are the biggest space missions to keep an eye on throughout 2023.
A Comet, 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse and Many Meteors: What to See in the Sky in 2023 - CNET
For skywatchers, one of the headline attractions of the year is already here, as the brightest comet of 2023 is coming into view. But even after it fades, there will be plenty of meteor showers, a handful of eclipses and lots of other celestial events to witness.
The good news for skywatchers is they also boost auroral activity, making all of 2023 a good time to keep an eye out for those northern and southern lights, especially at higher latitudes.
An unofficial list of the most influential science fiction works ever - The Washington Post
On a Monday evening last September, a NASA spacecraft intentionally blasted into an asteroid in deep space. The goal was planetary defense — protecting our planet from the kind of wayward rock that could end civilization as we know it.
"Crashing big things into celestial objects goes all the way back to the 1930s stories of Edmond 'World Wrecker' Hamilton," Lisa Yaszek, regents professor of science fiction studies at Georgia Tech, wrote in a text message.
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