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Asteroids
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A NASA Spacecraft Collision Might Have Caused A Meteor Shower That Will Last For 100 Years
04 Sep 2024 by Heinrich / No Comments
New research suggests fragments of Dimorphos will arrive in Earth and Mars’ neighbourhood within one to three decades,
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Thursday Morning Spice
07 Sep 2023 by Heinrich / No Comments
Raymond Ackerman has died, Why tablet sales tanked in South Africa, 14-Year-old boy dies after ‘One Chip Challenge, Villages cut off after ‘biblical’ downpours in Greece, and Venice entry fee will start next year.
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A Giant Asteroid Was Captured Exploding Over England [Video]
13 Feb 2023 by Tayla / No Comments
Expert said “airbursts of this size happen somewhere several times per year” and are “rarely discovered in advance”.
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Thursday Morning Spice
13 Oct 2022 by Kiernan / No Comments
NASA asteroid mission successful. Tourists to SA will watch safety vid. Rhino horn ‘Godfather’ nabbed. AI predicts Kardashian appearances without surgery.
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NASA Asteroid Debris Spotted By SA Observatory
28 Sep 2022 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The South African Astronomical Observatory captured images of the moment of impact which “shows debris flying off the asteroid”.
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There’s A Real NASA Mission To Protect Earth From An ‘Armageddon’ Asteroid Strike [Video]
06 Oct 2021 by Tayla / No Comments
When you look up at the sky in late November, just know that there’s a chance NASA will be ramming a spacecraft into some space rocks.
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Don’t Panic, But There’s A Small Chance Asteroid Apophis Could Smash Into Earth
18 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
NASA keeps a watchlist of all the asteroids that they think might be heading our way, and Asteroid 99942 Apophis is under close supervision.
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They’re Starting To Place Value On Asteroids Now [Video]
02 Nov 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
If hypotheses are correct, even Jeff Bezos couldn’t afford to buy Asteroid Psyche, which is worth more than the entire economy on our planet.
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Scientists Reckon They Know What Was On That 2018 ‘Fireball’ Meteor [Videos]
28 Oct 2020 by Carrie / No Comments
For more than two years, scientists have been studying a 12 million-year-old meteorite that fell to Earth in 2018, and they’re ready to reveal the results.
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Asteroid Could Hold Secret To Finding Extraterrestrial Life
20 Mar 2019 by Carrie / No Comments
A Japanese spacecraft orbiting an asteroid has made some surprising discoveries that could tell us a lot about the earth and other solar systems.
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Luxembourg’s Latest Money-Making Mission Involves Mining Asteroids In Space
20 Apr 2018 by Sloane Hunter / No Comments
Luxembourg might not register in your mind, but the country has massive dreams that involve becoming trillionaires from asteroid mining.
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NASA’s Largest And Most Powerful Rocket Is On Track For A 2017 Test Flight
10 Jun 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This is NASA’s largest and most powerful rocket to date. And the aim is for it to have its first test flight in 2017. Low-Earth orbit travel will be a thing of the past for NASA: they want the Space Launch System to take them to new heights.
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NASA Planning Manned Asteroid Mission
16 May 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
NASA will start training a team astronauts to land on an asteroid in the next month, in preparation for a mission that will take humans farther from Earth than ever before. They’ll be collecting mineral samples and determining how to destroy an asteroid in the event that it might collide with the Earth. Seriously.
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Asteroid Mining Could Save The World’s Economy
23 Apr 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Time-tested wisdom says the sky’s the limit. However, a group of billionaires are looking to change that as they launch the first ever venture to mine asteroids, in space. For real. Click through for the details.
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So Is This The Doomsday Asteroid?
10 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
So according to the ever pessimistic Russians, we’re all gonna die in the year 2036. See, this 900-foot-long asteroid, epically named ‘99942 Apophis’, is apparently headed towards our measly little planet. NASA doesn’t agree, but don’t you worry, even if things go pear, they’ve got a plan.
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WE ALMOST DIED – ASTEROIDS WAVE HELLO
09 Sep 2010 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
It mightn’t look it, but what you see above is a graphic representation of narrowly-dodged doom.
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