September 21, 2018 Japan lowers rovers onto 'dumpling' asteroid, hopeful of historic touchdown Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has lowered two small rovers onto an asteroid in an epic mission to study the distant space rock.
September 18, 2018 Asteroid hides behind sparkling spiral galaxy in dazzling view The European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile has a busy observation schedule, but sometimes cloudy or moonlit skies mean a temporary halt to scientific measurements. During those times, the observatory team chooses interesting and beautiful objects across the southern skies to image in color.
September 13, 2018 Strange binary asteroid shows solar system upheaval happened early A strange pair of space rocks twirling around each other as they orbit the sun has helped scientists pinpoint when our solar system developed its current formation.
September 5, 2018 Supernovas that made the stars may have left traces in meteorites Meteorites may hold new clues about the supernova explosions from which the stars and planets of our solar system formed.
September 5, 2018 The US Geological Survey is getting serious about space resources and mining The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is starting to earnestly evaluate space resources for future mining.
August 30, 2018 International Space Station leak may have been caused by micrometeorite strike NASA and its Russian counterparts identified a tiny pressure leak on the International Space Station Wednesday, which may have been caused by a micrometeorite strike.
August 28, 2018 Asteroid billiards: This wild idea to protect Earth just might work Protecting Earth from dangerous space rocks might require a little asteroid-on-asteroid violence.
August 28, 2018 Doorbell camera captures fireball flashing through the sky in Missouri Incredible footage captured on a doorbell camera shows a fireball flashing through the night sky in Missouri.
August 27, 2018 Landing site on asteroid Ryugu chosen for Japan's Hayabusa2 mission We now know where a Japanese asteroid-sampling probe's lander will touch down this October.
August 23, 2018 'Potentially hazardous,' 500-foot asteroid set to zoom past Earth at 20,000 mph NASA has issued an alert that a "potentially hazardous asteroid" is on a "close approach" towards Earth.
