Asteroids News

A theoretical solution using a coat of paint could prevent a future near-Earth asteroid attack, according to a student whose novel solution won a 2012 ‘Move an Asteroid’ technical paper competition.

A firm called Deep Space Industries was launched Tuesday. The company plans to pioneer efforts to colonize other parts of our solar system by building robotic spacecraft that can mine precious metals like nickel and platinum from near-Earth asteroids.

San Antonio - A ball of fire streaked across the sky at daytime in Texas last week. Thousands of Texans witnessed the incident. The ball of fire burned so brightly in the sky that one San Antonio resident described it as "like a little piece of the sun falling."

NASA astronomers say a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids. This, the experts say, could explain the frequent flares observed in the center of the Milky Way.

Recent cases of close approaches to the Earth by space bodies called near-Earth objects (NEOs) have lead to the emergence of a new international effort to address the threat posed by these celestial flotsam.

Remanzacco - Two Italian amateur astronomers, Ernesto Guido and Giovanni Sostero, have managed to photograph one of the two asteroids that passed close to Earth on Sept. 8.

Universal Studios has won the bidding war for the next game to movie adaption; accept this time they can't get the story wrong.

A Research team reports two rare meteorites found in Antarctica two years ago are from a previously unknown, ancient asteroid have an outer layer or crust similar in composition to the crust of Earth's continents.

It could be embarrassing, being hit by the wrong sort of asteroids and not having a good statistical explanation. Seems that the vast majority of asteroids mostly aren’t made of the same stuff as the meteorites that hit Earth every day. What a relief.

Apollo 9 legend Rusty Schweickart slammed NASA's plan to stop earth bound asteroids out of space with nuclear weapons saying that nukes is not the best option to deal with the threat.