asteroids

Space agency ups risk of asteroid-Earth collision 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 12, 2019
Assessment pushes new rock up the danger list, but possibility remains very remote. Andrew Masterson reports.

By David Aragorn
Metal From Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Kills Cancer Cells When Blasted With Light 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web, Science & Technology
- February 7, 2019
Iridium, a metal associated with the asteroid that ended the Cretaceous era can act like a stealth bomb, entering the nucleus of a cancer cell.

By David Aragorn
Scientists Warn of Steady Increase in Asteroid Impacts on Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 29, 2019
One of the scientists involved in the study pointed out that although the number of space rocks striking earth is increasing, the probability of an asteroid strike wiping out mankind is extremely low.

By David Aragorn
Space in 2019 will be all about the moon, and one weird asteroid 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 26, 2019
Fifty years after Neil Armstrong’s historic step, robots from China, India, Israel, the US and elsewhere are heading back.

By David Aragorn
Asteroid strikes ‘increase threefold over last 300m years’0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 22, 2019
Planet and moon have been hit by more asteroids in the past 290m years than at any time in previous billion

By David Aragorn
Apophis asteroid could strike Earth in 2068, warn Russian scientists 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 22, 2019
The ominously-named Apophis asteroid could have hundreds of opportunities to hit the Earth over the course of the next century, Russian scientists have warned.

By David Aragorn
Two daring spacecraft aim to bring asteroid dust back to Earth 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 18, 2019
The pristine space material may help explain life’s beginnings

By David Aragorn
Asteroid suddenly shows off a comet-like tail 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 17, 2019
A smash-up in the asteroid belt may have turned a previously calm and quiet space rock into a splashier kind of celestial object.

By David Aragorn
Steam-propelled spacecraft could explore asteroids ‘forever’, say scientists 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 17, 2019
‘Awesome’ technology could be used to explore ‘anywhere there is water and sufficiently low gravity’

By David Aragorn
Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Triggered Mile-High Tsunami That Spread Through Earth’s Oceans 0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- January 10, 2019
When the dinosaur-killing asteroid collided with Earth more than 65 million years ago, it did not go gently into that good night. Rather, it blasted a nearly mile-high tsunami through the Gulf of Mexico that caused chaos throughout the world’s oceans, new research finds.

By David Aragorn