A crowd-funding campaign to include public participation in a planned privately owned asteroid-hunting telescope was closing in on the halfway point of a $1 million goal -- in its first day. Continue reading →
On March 17, a space rock the size of a basketball slammed into the lunar surface at a speed of 56,000 miles per hour, creating a new crater around 20 meters wide. Continue reading →
Officials have confirmed that approval will be given for NASA to carry out a part-robotic, part-manned mission to capture, park and study a small asteroid. ->
The DE-STAR lasers could either evaporate and destroy asteroids or at least knock them off course. ->
More than 900 people were injured Friday morning after a meteor streaking to Earth triggered a powerful sonic boom. Learn what caused the powerful boom. ->
The Russian meteor and flyby of 2012 DA14 were not related -- to prove it, simulation company AGI has recreated both historic events. ->
A main belt asteroid has been officially re-named "274301 Wikipedia." ->
Next week, a 45 meter-wide, 130,000 ton space rock will zoom safely by. But as far as cosmic distances go, it will be a close shave. ->
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