NASA calls on amateur astronomers to locate smaller asteroids

Last Updated: Monday, June 24, 2013, 15:17

NASA has asked amateur astronomers to help them identify the smaller asteroids that are capable of wiping out a city or worse when they impact with Earth.

3 large asteroids orbit Sun in exactly same time period as Uranus

Last Updated: Wednesday, June 19, 2013, 13:34

Astrophysicists from the Complutense University of Madrid have confirmed that Crantor, a large asteroid with a diameter of 70 km, has an orbit similar to that of Uranus and takes the same amount of time to orbit the Sun.

How NASA proposes to deflect `killer` asteroids endangering Earth

Last Updated: Sunday, June 2, 2013, 09:37

What if an asteroid were headed straight for Earth?Well, NASA evidently has us covered.

NASA identifies 28 new asteroid families

Last Updated: Thursday, May 30, 2013, 19:05

Astronomers using data from NASA`s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have identified 28 new families of asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter.

Moon craters may hold remains of ancient asteroids

Last Updated: Tuesday, May 28, 2013, 16:34

Around 25 per cent of the Moon`s impact craters may preserve substantial pieces of the asteroids that created them, scientists claim.

Near-Earth asteroids and Mars` 2 moons considered for future space missions

Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013, 19:24

Researchers have successfully completed a first series of field tests aimed at investigating how humans will explore and work on near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and eventually the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos.

Mars bombarded by over 200 space rocks per year: NASA

Last Updated: Thursday, May 16, 2013, 11:13

Scientists have estimated that the red planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits of comets per year.

NASA plans for asteroids and a trip to Mars

Last Updated: Friday, April 12, 2013, 19:04

Planned space adventures over the next few decades for the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) read like a science fiction thriller with a touch of the wild west thrown in.

`Retired` star discovered with planets, debris disc orbiting it

Last Updated: Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 10:10

Astronomers have been able to obtain the first images of a dust belt - produced by colliding comets or asteroids - orbiting a subgiant star known to host a planetary system.

Earth`s moon and asteroids share same bombardment history

Last Updated: Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 10:05

NASA and international researchers have discovered that Earth`s moon and large asteroids roaming our solar system have more in common than previously thought.

Two asteroids to pass near Earth today

Last Updated: Saturday, March 9, 2013, 09:30

Two asteroids, one of them bigger in size than the celestial body that burst over Russia last month, will fly by the Earth Saturday, though not as close as to threaten collision.