The background is softly blurred, showcasing a rugged, terraformed Martian landscape ... sunlit sky with faint asteroids visible in the background. The image is captured with a 50mm lens, creating ...

Countless asteroids in our solar system, some close, some far — but did you know that some of these space rocks have names? Several years ago, Unistellar held a contest to name an asteroid its citizen ...

KILLER ASTEROIDS ON A COLLISION COURSE WITH EARTH. NASA JUST ANNOUNCED A DEAL WITH SPACEX TO LAUNCH THE NEAR-EARTH OBJECT, OR NEO SURVEY OR MISSION. YEAH, WELL, THE ODDS ARE SMALL OF IT EVER ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has discovered that a system of asteroids in the distant Kuiper Belt may be triplets, not twins as previously suspected. If so, the stable trio of icy space rocks ...

“People say the dinosaurs didn’t have a space program - or astronomers to track asteroids - that’s what killed them,” he muses. While astronomers at NASA and the European Space Agency have ...

In short, asteroid 2024 YR4 went from breaking records for known threatening asteroids to being a near-zero threat. At some point in the near future, this risk may be out of date. The rock is 130 ...

Astronomers believe that 14,000 undiscovered near-Earth objects like asteroids, large enough to cause damage, could be in space. Recently, NASA was tracking a large asteroid flying past Earth ...

On the plus side, mining those asteroids is tons of fun. Jump in your space freighter, blast off to one of the asteroids passing through your claim, then land on it with your shuttle craft.

You "may want to keep your head down" on 22 December 2032, said Time. That's the day an asteroid may strike our planet. The chances of 2024 YR4 striking Earth increased this week to 1 in 32 but ...

Space can be unpredictable, but NASA is always watching. On 6 March, three asteroids will pass Earth, including two the size of an airplane and one the size of a bus. While they pose no danger ...

Mar. 4, 2025 — The puzzle of predicting how three gravitationally bound bodies move in space has challenged mathematicians for centuries, and has most recently been popularized in the novel and ...

Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are asteroids or comets nudged into our neighborhood of space by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets. They are chunks of rock, metal or ice left over from the ...