Images from a 2D Spheral simulation showing the fragmentation of the Chelyabinsk bolide as it descends through the atmosphere. Credit: LLNL Planetary Defense program Images from a 2D Spheral ...
Planetary defense has moved from science fiction to a live engineering problem, and the stakes could not be higher. The ...
One of the NEAs, 99942 Apophis, which was discovered in 2004, is arriving on (of all the freaking dates) Friday the 13th in ...
Sixty-six million years ago, this asteroid crashed into Earth and wiped out most of the life on our planet. Including the biggest, baddest things that ever roamed the planet. Yeah, dinosaurs. If a ...
The China National Space Administration plans to launch the asteroid sample-return mission TianWen-2 with the target being the near-Earth asteroid 2016 HO3. The TianWen-2 spacecraft mainly focuses on ...