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First spotted in 2013, astronomers have come back for another, extremely rarely look at the centaur called Chariklo that they now think harbors ice water.

James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Spots Asteroid With Its Own Saturn-Like Rings

By Frank Landymore

Researchers have found asteroids that are largely made out of small pieces of rubble could be very difficult to ward off if one were to head our way.

Scientists Warn Giant Asteroid Is Actually Swarm, Nearly Impossible to Destroy

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is very pleased with just how much material was released when it intentionally smashed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid in September.

NASA Pleased With the Degree to Which It Kicked This Asteroid’s A**

By Victor Tangermann

Introducing Asteroid Launcher, an app that allows you to simulate exactly how an asteroid impact might destroy your hometown — or anywhere else.

Fun Website Lets You Simulate an Asteroid Impact in Your Hometown

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After disappointing setbacks and delays, NASA has finally got its mission to an invaluable asteroid made of precious metals back on track.

NASA Sets Launch Date for Mission to $10 Quintillion Asteroid

By Frank Landymore

NASA's DART collision created a massive cloud of space debris, which was captured by observatories — and the resulting images are absolutely breathtaking.

The Devastation From NASA’s Asteroid Collision Looks Unbelievable

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is planning to smash a spacecraft into an asteroid to see if we can deflect any future asteroids— and it just acquired the first image of its target.

NASA’s Battering Ram Now Has Asteroid It’ll Smash in Its Sights

By Victor Tangermann

NASA will be commencing its first planetary defense system test, known as DART, by flying a spacecraft straight into an asteroid. Here's how to watch.

How to Livestream NASA Smashing an Asteroid to Test Planetary Defense Plan

By Frank Landymore

A NASA update has revealed that after a series of delays, the Psyche asteroid mission is under review and may ultimately be scrapped.

NASA May Cancel Mission to Zillion Dollar Asteroid

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Japanese scientists have analyzed asteroid dust collected the by the country's Hayabusa2 spacecraft and found "clues to the origin of life on Earth

Japanese Scientists: This Asteroid’s Samples Contain “Clues to the Origin of Life”

By Victor Tangermann

A report says scientists discovered tiny rock fragments believed to be from the day an asteroid struck Earth 66 mllion years ago and killed the dinosaurs.

Team Claims to Have Found Chunk of Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs

By Lonnie Lee Hood

More than 30 residents reported a fireball and loud boom that turned out to be a meteor yesterday. Was it connected to that other asteroid?

Science & Energy

Residents Hear Loud Boom That Turns Out to Be a Meteor

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA is hoping to launch a spacecraft to investigate a massive metal-rich asteroid called Psyche, which experts estimate to be worth $10 quintillion.

NASA Shows Off Spacecraft Visiting $10 Quintillion Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

An asteroid called 2022 AE1 showed potential impact with Earth in July of 2023, but the threat has now been reduced to nearly zero and will not impact.

Good News: Killer Asteroid Not Going to Hit Earth, Scientists Say

By Lonnie Lee Hood

NASA — with the help of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket — has launched its Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft on Tuesday night.

SpaceX Launches NASA Battering Ram to Crash Into Giant Asteroid

By Tony Ho Tran

In a new study, scientists say they found evidence that the quasi-Moon is an ancient fragment of the Earth’s primary Moon.

Science & Energy

Study: Earth Has Another Tiny Moon That Broke Off from the Big One

By Tony Ho Tran

New research suggests that nuking an asteroid is actually a good plan for saving the planet, even if it's just months before impact.

Science & Energy

Scientists Admit That Yeah, Nuking an Asteroid Might Actually Work

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists got an incredible look at Kleopatra, also known as the "dog bone asteroid," which is spinning so fast it might rip itself apart.

Science & Energy

Rapidly Spinning “Dog Bone” Asteroid Near Mars Could Break Itself Apart

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has approved development of the Near-Earth Object Surveyor space telescope to hunt out potentially life-threatening asteroids approaching our planet.

NASA to Build an Asteroid Hunting Space Telescope

By Tony Ho Tran

The 2021 Planetary Defense Conference Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Tabletop Exercise concluded that we don't have the tech to stop an asteroid impact.

Giant Asteroid Hits Europe After NASA Fails to Stop It, In a Simulation

By Victor Tangermann

Government scientists ran a wide variety of simulations in order to find the best way to blast a killer asteroid off-course with a nuclear missile.

Science & Energy

The US Government Is Trying to Figure Out the Best Way to Nuke an Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

A massive 164-foot asteroid called 2006 QV89 has a one in 7,000 chance of bashing into the Earth on the morning of September 9, according to the ESA.

NASA: This Asteroid Will Get So Close It Could Smash Into Earth’s Satellites

By Tony Ho Tran

Scientists discovered water and organic matter on the surface of an asteroid, suggesting that impacts could have brought life's precursors to Earth.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Water, Organic Materials on Surface of Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found ancient dust that they say is conclusive evidence an asteroid killed the dinosaurs tens of millions of years ago.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Smoking Gun Evidence in Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Case

By Dan Robitzski

Space agencies around the world are collaborating to make high-security facilities to study asteroids and Mars rocks for signs of life.

Science & Energy

Space Agencies Acknowledge That Asteroids Could Host Life

By Dan Robitzski

After spending more than a year studying Ryugu, an asteroid some 180 million miles away, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft has returned to drop off some samples.

Japanese Spacecraft Returns Asteroid Samples to Earth

By Victor Tangermann

Bennu, the asteroid on which NASA landed a spacecraft to gather samples, seems to be hollow and gradually crumbling apart.

Science & Energy

NASA Data Appears to Show That Giant Asteroid Is Hollow

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers can't definitively rule out the chance that the "God of Chaos" asteroid Apophis crashes into Earth when it returns in 2068.

Science & Energy

There’s a Chance This Giant Asteroid Will Smash Earth in 2068

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Shutting Spacecraft Door Early to Keep Asteroid Chunks From Falling Out

NASA Shutting Spacecraft Door Early to Keep Asteroid Chunks From Falling Out

By Victor Tangermann

OSIRIS-REx took such a big bite out of the surface of Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, it's "mouth" is jammed open, with bits of asteroid rubble falling out.

NASA Spacecraft Grabbed Too Many Asteroid Chunks and Now They’re Drifting Into Space

By Victor Tangermann

Oreo launched a bizarre stunt where it built a doomsday vault to protect its cookies from an asteroid that doesn't pose a threat to Earth at all.

Oreo Built a Doomsday Vault to Protect Its Cookies From a Harmless Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has finally released footage from when its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched down on asteroid Bennu's surface to collect a bunch of space rocks.

Science & Energy

Watch NASA’s Spacecraft Touch Down on a Tiny Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

For its first time, NASA has successfully collected samples from the surface of an asteroid using the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on Tuesday.

For the First Time In Its History, NASA Successfully Collects Sample From Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

NASA Spacecraft Finds Evidence of Ancient Rivers on Asteroid

Science & Energy

NASA Spacecraft Finds Evidence of Ancient Rivers on Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spotted some strangely light colored rocks on the surface of asteroid Bennu — likely from an entirely different asteroid.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Spot Bits of Entirely Different Asteroid on Surface of Bennu

By Victor Tangermann

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft got an up-close look at the asteroid Bennu as it crumbled apart and left a trail of debris and particles in its wake.

Science & Energy

NASA Got an Up-Close Look at an Asteroid Crumbling Apart

By Dan Robitzski

In the coming years, NASA plans to crash a SpaceX rocket into a tiny moon as a test run for diverting asteroids. But the moon's name was way too boring.

Science & Energy

NASA Renames Small Moon It Plans to Smash With SpaceX

By Dan Robitzski

When it comes time to stop a killer asteroid, scientists suggest tethering it to a second asteroid to send it away, just like tying shoelaces together.

Science & Energy

New Plan to Deflect Killer Asteroids: Tie Their Shoelaces Together

By Dan Robitzski

According to retired NASA astronaut Thomas Jones, the global failure to contain COVID-19 could be a teachable moment for asteroid impact planning.

Science & Energy

Astronaut: Killer Asteroid Plan Must Be Better Than COVID Response

By Dan Robitzski

The NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx recently flew near the surface of the asteroid Bennu to map out alternative landing sites for its sample collection mission.

Science & Energy

NASA Snaps Closeup Shots of Potential Asteroid Landing Site

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey suspect there's a small asteroid that caught itself in our planet's gravity, like a moon.

Science & Energy

Astronomers: Our Planet Might Have Another Moon, Except It’s Tiny

By Victor Tangermann

The ESA officially has budget approval for Hera, a mission to test our ability to prevent killer asteroids from slamming into the Earth.

Europe’s Space Agency Joins Mission to Deflect Killer Asteroids

By Kristin Houser

Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe started making its long trek back to Earth after collecting asteroid rock samples some 186 million miles away.

Science & Energy

Japanese Space Probe Returning to Earth, With Chunks of Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

A tabloid called Express publishes at least one article about killer asteroids almost every single day. Futurism investigates!

Science & Energy

This Awful Tabloid Predicts a Killer Asteroid Almost Every Day

By Dan Robitzski

Newly-released photos on the surface of the asteroid Ryugu reveal rocks that appear similar to ancient meteorites that crash-landed on Earth.

Science & Energy

Rocks on a Distant Asteroid Resemble Those on Earth

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk: “A Big Rock Will Hit Earth Eventually”

Science & Energy

Elon Musk: “A Big Rock Will Hit Earth Eventually”

By Victor Tangermann

Watch footage of Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 return to the site of where it bombed asteroid Ruyugu in order to scoop up rock samples.

Watch a Japanese Spacecraft Grab Rock Samples From Tiny Asteroid

By Victor Tangermann

A massive space rock called Asteroid 2019 OK just flew right past Earth reaching a distance of only 73,000 kilometers away from our planet's surface.

Science & Energy

“City Killer” Asteroid Whizzes Past Earth Almost Undetected

By Victor Tangermann

The ESA confirmed that asteroid 2006 QV89 will not collide with Earth later this year. Scientists don't know where it is, but it isn't on its way here.

Science & Energy

Good News: That Nearby Asteroid Won’t Obliterate Us This Year

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday, Hayabusa-2, the Japanese space probe that landed on then bombed and asteroid, once more touched down to collect samples and take pictures.

Japanese Probe Returns to Site of Asteroid Bombing, Takes Pics

By Dan Robitzski

An in-depth study of 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar visitor to our solar system, seems to finally put to bed the theory that it's an alien spacecraft.

Science & Energy

Sorry, but ’Oumuamua the Asteroid Wasn’t Sent by Aliens, Say Scientists, For Some Reason Dignifying This Yet Again

By Kristin Houser

A giant asteroid the size of a car just showed up on the University of Hawaii's survey telescopes mere hours before it entered the Earth's atmosphere.

Science & Energy

Massive Asteroid Explodes Above Puerto Rico Mere Hours After Detection

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers found a "large excess of mass" under the Moon's largest crater called the Aitken basin near the South Pole.

Astronomers Discover “Deep Structure” Under Moon’s Largest Crater

By Victor Tangermann

A massive 164-foot asteroid called 2006 QV89 has a one in 7,000 chance of bashing into the Earth on the morning of September 9, according to the ESA.

It’s Unlikely, but a 164-Foot Asteroid May Hit Earth in September

By Victor Tangermann

Saturday night, a mile-wide asteroid called 1999 KW4 will fly by the Earth, and when it does, it'll bring with it its very own moon.

Science & Energy

Asteroid Flying by Earth Is so Big It Has Its Own Moon

By Kristin Houser

Asteroid samples gathered by the Japanese space probe Hayabusa contain water-rich minerals, suggesting that asteroid impacts could bring water to planets.

A Japanese Probe Just Found Water on an Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

In 2029, the asteroid 99942 Apophis will fly past Earth close enough to look like a shooting star. NASA is planning ahead to learn as much as possible.

When This Asteroid Zips by Earth, Scientists May Hitch a Ride

By Dan Robitzski

Japan's asteroid bomb created a crater much larger than expected, leading scientists to wonder if there's something they don't know about the asteroid.

Science & Energy

New Image Shows Aftermath of Japan’s Asteroid Bomb

By Kristin Houser

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has released a video of the asteroid bombing mission recently undertaken by its Hayabusa2 spacecraft.

Science & Energy

Japan Releases Video of Its Spacecraft Bombing an Asteroid

By Kristin Houser

NASA approved the preliminary designs of a spacecraft expected to visit the asteroid Psyche in 2022. When it gets there, NASA won't know what to expect.

NASA Is Gearing up to Visit a Shattered, Volcanic Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX will provide launch services for NASA's DART mission, which is designed to test a plan for preventing an asteroid from hitting Earth.

NASA Asks SpaceX to Help It Save Earth From Incoming Asteroids

By Kristin Houser

The leader of Asgardia warns that world leaders must do more to prepare for a potentially life-threatening asteroid impact.

The “Space Nation” Warns That an Asteroid Could Wipe out Humanity

By Kristin Houser

NASA just announced that one of its spacecrafts has made a surprise discovery: "particle plumes erupting" from the surface of a large asteroid called Bennu.

NASA Shocked by “Plumes Erupting From an Asteroid’s Surface”

By Jon Christian

JAXA releases a video of its Hayabusa2 spacecraft successfully landing on tiny asteroid Ryugu and shooting it with a bullet.

New Video Shows Japanese Probe Shooting Asteroid With Bullet

By Victor Tangermann