asteroids

NASA Says Hippopotamus-Shaped Asteroid Zipped Past Earth

By Melissa Locker

These Lakes Are Actually Craters Made By Asteroids

By Marisa Gertz

The Science of Superman

By Jeffrey Kluger

How We Could Stop Any Asteroids Heading Our Way

By The Aspen Institute
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How the Sun Protects Earth From Getting Clobbered By an Asteroid

A trick of heat and light makes space rocks self-destruct

By Jeffrey Kluger

A Meteor Killed a Guy, but Here's Why You're Not Next

There are far likelier ways to go than getting clobbered by a space rock

By Jeffrey Kluger

Giant Comets Could Collide With Earth

The massive comets are known as centaurs

By Victor Luckerson

The White House Science Czar Talks Space

John Holdren on getting to Mars, redirecting asteroids, Obama's legacy and more

By Jeffrey Kluger

Astronaut: The Age of Asteroids? Boooooring…

A retired astronaut on the great folly of the new space age

By Marsha Ivins

You Can Quit Thanking Comets for Your Water

A new finding from the Rosetta spacecraft upsets a longstanding theory

By Michael D. Lemonick

Strange Visitors From the Edge of the Solar System

A pair of sort-of comets pose a puzzle for astronomers

By Michael D. Lemonick

Asteroid in a Bag? Bag it, Says MIT Space Scientist

NASA's next great manned mission has always sounded like something of a fever dream. There may be a better way to do the same work.

By Michael D. Lemonick

The Man Who Guards The Planet

Space is full of potential killer asteroids. Meet the astronomer who stands between you and them

By Jeffrey Kluger

Dead Space Telescope Lives Again!

Broken machines don't always get a second act, but thanks to NASA scientists, the Kepler probe—one of the most successful spacecraft ever built—can continue its search for distant planets.

By Michael D. Lemonick

No, We're Not All Gonna Die From An Asteroid

A new report spreads fear about the Earth getting clobbered by a killer rock. But the fact is we get hit all the time and we just don't know it. Move on, nothing to see here (at least for now)

By Jeffrey Kluger

An Asteroid Catastrophe Is More Likely Than You Think

Asteroid impacts on Earth are three to ten times more common than we imagined, new data shows, with researchers saying that only “blind luck” is preventing a disastrous strike from a "city killer" asteroid

By Michelle Arrouas

WANTED: Asteroid Hunters

NASA is enlisting lay people to help locate asteroids as part of its new Grand Challenge

By Maya Rhodan

10 Science Myths That Won't Go Away

They're everywhere, they're maddening—and they just ain't so. Here, in no particular order, is the incomplete, and by no means definitive, often painful list of the most common scientific misconceptions out there

By Jeffrey Kluger
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