Asteroid
- World
NASA postpones launch of planetary defence mission
Washington: NASA will delay the launch of a mission which seeks to test and validate a method to protect Earth in case of an asteroid impact threat. The launch of the mission, called…
- Science
Asteroid 2011 ES4 to approach towards earth by Sept. 1
By Ratna Chotrani Hyderabad: The asteroid 2011 ES4 will make a close approach towards the Earth on September 1 and will be closer to our planet than the Moon said Dr. B.G.…
- Science
Tiny asteroid buzzes by Earth – the closest flyby on record
Washington D.C: Near-Earth asteroids, or NEAs, pass by our home planet all the time. But an SUV-size asteroid set the record this past weekend for coming closer to Earth than any other known…
- Technology
NASA probe prepares for first asteroid sample collection attempt
Washington: NASA’s first asteroid sampling spacecraft is now just one rehearsal away from grabbing a sample from asteroid Bennu’s surface. The OSIRIS-REx mission will conduct a final rehearsal of its touchdown sequence on…
- Science
Giant asteroid to fly by Earth this week
Washington: NASA is tracking a giant asteroid that may be taller than the Empire State Building in the US, and it will be flying near the Earth on June 6 (Saturday). Given…
- Science
Asteroid 1998 OR2 to safely fly past Earth this week
Washington D.C.: A large near-Earth asteroid will safely pass by our planet on Wednesday morning, providing astronomers with an exceptional opportunity to study the 1.5-mile-wide (2-kilometer-wide) object in great detail. The asteroid,…
- Science
Japanese spacecraft bombs asteroid to make crater
Tokyo: The Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa-2 on Friday dropped an explosive on a remote asteroid for the first time to form a crater with a view to collect samples of its surface and…
- News
Hubble telescope images spun-up asteroid coming apart
Washington: NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a small asteroid in the process of spinning fast and throwing off material dusty debris. The Hubble images from show two narrow, comet-like tails of…
- News
What led to dinosaurs extinction?
New York: An asteroid or comet impact 66 million years ago reignited massive volcanic eruptions in India, and may have contributed to the dinosaurs’ extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period,…
- News
Japanese spacecraft lands on asteroid, takes samples
Tokyo: A Japanese spacecraft successfully touched down on the asteroid Ryugu on Friday, which is some 340 million km from Earth, to take samples that could provide clues on the origins of…
- News
In first, NASA spaceship begins orbit of asteroid
Tampa: A NASA spacecraft set a new milestone Monday in cosmic exploration by entering orbit around an asteroid, Bennu, the smallest object ever to be circled by a human-made spaceship. The spacecraft,…
- News
NASA spacecraft’s first orbit around asteroid Bennu breaks record
Washington: Breaking a space exploration record on New Year’s Eve, NASA’s first asteroid-sampling mission, OSIRIS-REx, entered into orbit around the Bennu, making it the smallest object ever to be orbited by a…
