The center's main task "will be to detect and track celestial bodies approaching Earth."

Russia is working on its own plan to blow up killer asteroids

Explosive News

Russia is launching a center devoted to monitoring meteors, comets, and asteroids to ensure they don't collide with Earth.

Russia Is Working on Its Own Plan to Blow up Killer Asteroids

To thwart incoming asteroids, Russia is considering everything from rockets to solar sails.

"No one has ever seen an active asteroid up close like this."

NASA baffled: asteroid Bennu keeps spitting out small rocks

Vomiting Rocks

a recent discovery about 1,600-foot space rock Bennu has scientists scratching their heads: it keeps spitting up small asteroid particles.

NASA Baffled: Asteroid Bennu Keeps Spitting Out Small Rocks

"We should have been on this 10 years ago and we didn't see it coming."

SpaceX’s satellite constellation could hide killer asteroids

Blind Spot

Detecting killer asteroids could become more difficult for astronomers as SpaceX adds more satellites to its Starlink constellation.

SpaceX’s Satellite Constellation Could Hide Killer Asteroids

If you can't see a dangerous space rock, how can you stop it?

"There are plans to install equipment on this [lunar] base to study deep space and special telescopes to track asteroids and comets that pose a danger of their collision with Earth."

Russia wants to build an observatory on the Moon

Front Row Seats

Roscosmos announced plans to build an observatory on its planned Moon base so that it can better spot potentially dangerous asteroids approaching Earth.

Russia Wants to Build an Observatory on the Moon

This lunar base will keep an eye out for dangerous asteroids.

They're more worried about incoming asteroids than the Red Planet.

Americans don’t really care about reaching Mars, says poll

Mars? Meh.

Americans think monitoring asteroids and comets that could hit the Earth is way more imporant than crewed missions to Mars, according to a new poll.

Americans Don’t Really Care About Reaching Mars, Says Poll

"There are all kinds of other things... that deserve our attention."

"There's quite a lot of damage outside of the main crater area."

New research: The Moon is covered with miles-deep cracks

Crater Face

A new study revealed that the Moon has much deeper scars from billions of years of asteroid impacts than initially thought.

New Research: The Moon Is Covered With Miles-Deep Cracks

The lunar surface is more perilous than scientists ever believed.

It's the most metal research of the year.

Explosive research: Some asteroids may have had volcanoes

Metal Volcanoes

New research shows that metallic asteroids may have once been home to volcanoes, as molten metal trapped beneath the surface erupted outward.

Explosive Research: Some Asteroids May Have Had Volcanoes

As metallic asteroids crystalized, molten iron at their cores may have exploded out.

Hayabusa2 is returning to the asteroid it landed on... with a vengeance.

Japan announces plan to bomb an asteroid

Paging Bruce Willis

The Japanese Space Agency just announced that Hayabusa2, the same robotic probe that landed on an asteroid, will drop a bomb on it and mine the fragments.

Japan Announces Plan to Bomb Asteroid

It's like mountaintop removal mining, but in space.

There's big money to be made in the space mining industry.

Want to snag a job mining asteroids someday? You can now get your masters in it.

Off World

A Colorado university just launched the world's first space resources degrees, which are designed to prepare students for off-world mining.

Want To Snag A Job Mining Asteroids Someday? You Can Now Get Your Masters In It.

Apply to the school of (space) rock.

Emergency infrastructure for asteroid impacts is in place.

Scientists complete the first international test of our ability to track dangerous asteroids

Hard Science

NASA and a international team of astronomers have in successfully simulated a dangerous asteroid emergency using the International Asteroid Warning Network.

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