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Mysterious fireball streaks across Texas sky

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."

In the Media by JohnThomas Didymus - 5 comments

NASA's Chandra detects Milky Way's black hole devours asteroids

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.

In the Media by JohnThomas Didymus - 3 comments

NEOShield to address global threat of near-Earth objects

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.

In the Media by JohnThomas Didymus

Passing asteroid caught on camera

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.

In the Media by Lee Labuschagne - 2 comments

Universal to make Asteroids! the Movie

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

In the Media by David Goldsmith - 3 comments

Scientists Publish Evidence of Asteroids with Earth-like Crust

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.

In the Media by Bob Ewing

Is Earth being hit by the wrong asteroids? Well, no, but there is a reason for that

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.

In the Media by Paul Wallis - 7 comments

Nukes not the best option to stop asteroids, says Apollo astronaut

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.

In the Media by Kesavan Unnikrishnan - 2 comments

Move Over Global Warming, Let's Talk About Global Catastrophes

The Global Catastrophic Risks conference started yesterday morning and death by asteroids, comets and gamma ray bursts was on the agenda as experts discussed the statistical likelihood of these types of global catastrophes.

In the Media by Susan Duclos - 19 comments

Deep Impact: We can’t actually afford to get hit by an asteroid, just now

Say the world was under threat from an asteroid, and the guy from NASA says “Well, we don’t really have the budget…” At the moment, they’re talking about a budget for detecting asteroids, not a budget for doing anything about them.

In the Media by Paul Wallis - 6 comments

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VIDEO: Mining asteroids for gold and platinum

Details have been emerging of the plan by billionaire entrepreneurs to mine asteroids for their resources.

AUDIO: Bus-sized asteroid to pass by Earth

Astronomers are watching for an asteroid the size of a double-decker bus which will pass within 70,000km of Earth on Friday.

Asteroid makes close approach to Earth

An asteroid about 11 metres in diameter roared past the Earth early Friday in one of the closest approaches ever recorded for such an event, astronomers say.

Asteroid makes near-miss fly-by

An 11m-wide asteroid passed within 60,000km of Earth on Friday, making it one of the 20 closest recorded approaches to our planet.

Simulation obliterates asteroid with nuclear bomb

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico presented a simulation of what would happen if a one-megaton bomb were detonated on the surface of an asteroid 500 metres in diameter.