Asteroids News

  • NASA will try again Monday to launch the space shuttle Endeavour after a one-day delay due to thick clouds. (9 Feb 2010 04:30)

    ... technologies and capabilities to push human spaceflight beyond Earth orbit, possibly to the moon, asteroids or Mars. The budget request still has to be approved by members of Congress, ...

  • A New Space Program (9 Feb 2010 05:56)

    ... space travel cheaper and faster, a prerequisite for reaching beyond the Moon to nearby asteroids or Mars. To save money and free the agency for more ambitious journeys, the ...

  • Professor: We have a 'moral obligation' to seed universe with life (9 Feb 2010 11:42)

    ... such as rotifer eggs to jumpstart higher evolution. These organisms may be captured into asteroids and comets in the newly forming solar systems and transported from there by impacts ...

  • President Obama's plan best mission for NASA (9 Feb 2010 02:50)

    ... as precursors and technology demonstrators, paving the way for human exploration of the moon, asteroids and Mars. Additional funding has been committed to the development of advanced propulsion technology, ...

  • NASA is about to launch the mother of all Super Bowl pregame shows with the space shuttle Endeavour, which is poised to blast off before dawn Sunday morning. (9 Feb 2010 04:30)

    ... commercially built spacecraft that could send astronauts back to the moon or to asteroids or Mars faster than the old path. Shuttle officials said the radical shift ...

  • Lake's peak oil plan (9 Feb 2010 04:32)

    ... walk the Earth? I eagerly await an action plan for this. And what about asteroid impacts? Has Greg Piper even read "Lucifer's Hammer"? Forget drains/ footpaths/ etc - Local ...

  • JSC chief 'anxious' about facility's future (9 Feb 2010 05:20)

    ... that will define where the space agency hopes to go — the moon? Mars? asteroids? — and the technology it will use to get there. Bolden said Obama is ...

  • Asteroid collision leaves scientists starstruck (8 Feb 2010 13:35)

    ... it is something researchers have never seen before - the immediate aftermath of two asteroids colliding. The scattered debris that looks like a comet's tail is actually the result ...

  • Politics of Cosmic Catastrophe (8 Feb 2010 07:57)

    ... the Russian space agency Roscosmos, to launch an unmanned mission to redirect a large asteroid that might collide with Earth after 2030. At more than 360 meters in diameter, ...

  • It's the Footnote in NASA's Report that Worries Me--Just Ano (8 Feb 2010 00:52)

    ... It's the Footnote in NASA's Report that Worries Me--Just Another Asteroid Heading Our Way, eh? Ho Hum, Nothing to Worry about"? In January 2010, I ...

  • Leo frames the bright dot that is Vesta (8 Feb 2010 09:07)

    ... between Mars and Jupiter lie millions perhaps billions of rocks known as asteroids. Most range in size from tiny pebbles to chunks the size of mountains. The ...

  • Worst of Super Bowl 2010 ads: Bud Light, Dodge and more (8 Feb 2010 03:55)

    ... Dr. Pierre Chang from "Lost" -- has a group of astronomers anticipating an oncoming asteroid by hooking up and drinking Bud Light. Excellent casting -- but a major continuity ...

  • Photos offer a glimpse of Pluto (8 Feb 2010 06:17)

    ... extreme place to be," said Brown, the self-proclaimed "Pluto killer," whose discoveries in the asteroid-strewn Kuiper Belt infamously led to the demotion of the former planet to dwarf status. ...

  • Planet Calypso Sees 2nd Amazing Sale of the Year (8 Feb 2010 16:35)

    ... within the year. NEVERDIE mortgaged his home in Miami in 2005 to purchase an Asteroid for $100,000 USD. NEVERDIE turned the Asteroid into a NightClub dubbed Club NEVERDIE, which ...

  • What was your favorite Super Bowl commercial? (8 Feb 2010 18:58)

    ... he didn't call last night. He was diversifying his portfolio and..other things. Astronomers see asteroid headed toward “doomed” Earth and decide to spend last moments partying with beer. Turns ...

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