20 August 2021
"Weird" comet ATLAS may be a remnant of an ancient visitor
... all of those years ago? The answer is comet ATLAS (C/2019 Y4). Discovered by its namesake in December 2019, the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a robotic astronomical survey system based in Hawaii, Comet ATLAS was...
14 August 2019
Protesters block asteroid detection safety work
... be on a collision course with Earth. An outside possibility: it could get here as soon as this year. As of this summer, the asteroid (named 2006 QV89) is finally close enough to observe again. After so long, however, the astronomers in Hawaii had...
24 March 2023
Close approach to Earth and Moon of newly discovered asteroid
...injured roughly 1,500 people as windows exploded. This new asteroid won’t be back again until 2026 and although there initially... a speed of about 15,000 mph and succeeded in altering the asteroid’s orbit. The image at the top of this story is composed...
24 January 2022
Solar sail mission will intercept and study small asteroid
...like a boulder – or if it’s composed of smaller rocks and dust clumped together like some of its larger asteroid cousins, such as asteroid Bennu. “Thanks to the discoveries of NEAs by Earth-based observatories, several targets had been identified for...
March 2017
Space is open for business
When nearly 300 people gathered in one of the world’s most renowned science venues, the London Science Museum, on 14-15 September, just one third of the audience came from industry. This was part of the plan because the idea was to engage new ...
05 March 2021
For the first time, organic materials essential for life have been found on the surface of an asteroid
...2 craft which recently collected loose debris samples from asteroid Ryugu by firing a metal projectile into the rocky ... have focused heavily on C-type carbon-rich asteroids. This is because S-type (stony) asteroids, the type which gives rise to the ...
