An Asteroid May Kill Us All. Congress Is Pinching Pennies.0
- From Around the Web, Space
- May 19, 2017
Spending $50 million a year is a pittance in terms of managing this existential risk.
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Is this stone proof an asteroid wiped out a civilisation just like ours 13,000 years ago?0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- May 2, 2017
… and does it vindicate the maverick scholar who says a giant meteorite will destroy us in 2030?
Make Mars Livable with Asteroids: Researchers Propose Terraforming Plan0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 28, 2017
A research team has devised a plan to make a portion of Mars more Earth-like by slamming an asteroid into it.
Asteroid Shock Waves Could Have Provided the Building Blocks for RNA0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 28, 2017
Life begins with a bang.
Future of asteroid intercept mission depends on Congress0
- From Around the Web, Space
- April 4, 2017
Plans to continue a NASA mission to intercept a small asteroid will depend on a decision due by the end of April on NASA’s 2017 budget, an agency official said March 20.
Asteroid clay is a better space radiation shield than aluminium0
- From Around the Web, Science & Technology, Space
- March 30, 2017
The huge rocks that hurtle through space may prove to be lifesavers for astronauts. Clays extracted from asteroids could be used on deep space missions to shield against celestial radiation.
Asteroid Impacts Spawned Colossal 500-Foot-High Tsunamis in Mars’ Ancient Oceans0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 29, 2017
“The possibility that a large ocean once occupied the Martian northern plains is one of the most important and controversial hypotheses to have originated from the exploration of Mars,” the researchers wrote in the study.
NASA Creating a New Spacecraft to Prevent Extinction-Level Earth-Bound Asteroid Impact0
- From Around the Web, Space
- March 7, 2017
NASA is working to get a spacecraft to an asteroid before one strikes Earth.
Saturn Could Be Defending Earth From Massive Asteroid Impacts0
- From Around the Web, Space
- February 16, 2017
Jupiter is often cited as Earth’s protector — but Saturn may actually be hero of the day.
The White House has finally released a strategy for dealing with deadly asteroids0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 10, 2017
For years, scientists have been expressing their concern over how unprepared the world is for a potentially extinction-level asteroid or meteor strike.
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