2024 YR4 and the Moon: Should We Deflect or Destroy the Asteroid?
Simulations of 2024 YR4 show that sometimes it is better to destroy an asteroid than to move it: but are we sure?
Three space probes aim for Apophis in 2029
On April 13, 2029, Apophis will pass within 32 km of Earth. Three space agencies are ready for the event of the century.
Hayabusa2, the final frontier: landing on a dwarf asteroid
An 11-meter-wide asteroid that rotates every five minutes: Hayabusa2 is preparing for the most challenging mission in history. The Japanese probe will have to land on a celestial body smaller than a bus, spinning like a top. Will it succeed?
Planetary Defense, Earth is Now (Almost) Asteroid-Proof
Dinosaurs didn’t have a space program, we do. Modern planetary defense can now detect and potentially deflect asteroids on a collision course, as the recent case of 2024 YR4 shows.
We're All Aliens: Asteroid Bennu Has the Ingredients for Life
What do the ingredients for life found on asteroid Bennu teach us? The answer could change everything.
Taurids: Research 'deflates' meteor shower impact risk
Taurid Meteor Shower Does Not Threaten Earth: Astronomers Disprove Doomsday Warnings of Falling Asteroids
Dinosaur Extinction: A 2nd Asteroid Broadens the Historical Picture
Dinosaurs Victims of a Cosmic One-Two Punch? Crater Off Guinea Bolsters Double-Impact Theory as Extinction Cause
Asteroid risk, RAMSES mission: Apophis will be a planetary defense test
The passage of asteroid Apophis in 2029 offers a unique opportunity to study asteroid risk. ESA's RAMSES mission aims to exploit this event to improve our knowledge of planetary defence.
Apophis, 5 years to the date: all plans to study it closely
The flyby of Apophis in 2029 offers a unique opportunity to study a potentially (but not now) dangerous asteroid. The challenge is open.
DART, NASA triumph: the asteroid Dimorphos changes shape after the impact
Recent studies suggest that Dimorphos, hit by NASA's DART probe, is 'healing', and changing its shape and surface.
Asteroid on collision course with Earth, as NASA would warn us
Here's how NASA is working to predict and prevent the impact of an asteroid similar to the one that extinguished the dinosaurs.
Water on the surface of an asteroid, a first
Historic discovery thanks to the NASA SOFIA observatory: an asteroid with water on the surface found. The discovery helps study how planets originated.
Bennu, the analysis of the asteroid material: there is water and carbon
NASA has revealed the first data on the asteroid Bennu, thanks to the OSIRIS-REx mission. The analysis shows an abundance of carbon and water, key elements for life
NASA, recovered the sample from the asteroid Bennu: why it is important
After a long journey, OSIRIS-REX brings a sample of the asteroid Bennu to Earth: it can provide us with crucial answers.
We have a map of all the dangerous asteroids for the next 1000 years
Astronomers are mapping the trajectories of dangerous asteroids over the next 1000 years: two of them could give us more of a headache.
Space, "mini Ceres" asteroids found, full of water: "they give life to planets"
The new Ceres-like asteroids could be responsible for the presence of ice and organic materials on Earth and Mars
The dinosaur "killer" asteroid created tsunamis with waves 4 kilometers high
The dinosaur killer asteroid has a precise identikit, but we know more and more about its "ferocity". Here is the latest discovery on the matter.
Today we will use HAARP to hit an asteroid with a radio “projectile”.
The HAARP radio system will be used for the first time as a radio "cannon" to know the interior of the asteroid which today will pass at a distance twice that of the Moon
China wants to make the Moon an asteroid defense outpost
China intends to expand its planetary defense program by installing telescopes and satellites on the moon. To monitor asteroids ... and possibly hostile countries.
Ryugu, the Japanese scientists: traces of the 'building blocks' of life on the asteroid
From the analyzes on the material of the asteroid Ryugu more questions than answers, but all contemplate that life is practically everywhere in the cosmos.
We already have the technology to save the Earth from an asteroid
A new paper examining the technical aspects of a planetary defense system says yes: we can save the Earth from an asteroid.
