SYFY WIRE Bennu Everything You Need to Know About NASA's "Asteroid Autumn" All asteroids, all the time! By Cassidy Ward 3 days ago NASA's First Ever Asteroid Sample Return Mission Successfully Lands in Utah OSIRIS-REx delivered a sample from the asteroid Bennu. By Cassidy Ward 4 days ago NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Impact Avoidance Mission Is Coming Home with an Asteroid Sample Just a heads up, but the sampled asteroid Bennu could impact Earth in 2182. By Cassidy Ward 1 week ago NASA snatched a sample of an asteroid, now they’re returning it to Earth In an ideal world, we touch asteroids but they don't touch us. By Cassidy Ward 5 months ago Sunlight forces tiny asteroids to get rid of their dust bunnies Small asteroid surfaces are dustless, possibly because they're zapped by UV light. By Phil Plait 1 year ago The best shielding against small meteorite impacts? Cover yourself in rubble Bennu has a natural force field to protect it: Crumbly rocks. By Phil Plait 1 year ago Electrostatic repulsion may be lofting small rocks off the asteroid Bennu The tiny asteroid is spitting rocks into space. By Phil Plait 1 year ago OSIRIS-REx is now going to go asteroid hopping to the space rock that once threatened Earth Yes, that asteroid. By Elizabeth Rayne 1 year ago NASA got a Ryugu sample, and it could be a time capsule of the solar system NASA now has a rare sample from Asteroid Ryugu, and the secrets of the solar system might be hiding in there. By Elizabeth Rayne 1 year ago Why is the asteroid Bennu’s surface rocky and not smooth? Small asteroids may be more like demolition pits than beaches By Phil Plait 1 year ago Load More
Everything You Need to Know About NASA's "Asteroid Autumn" All asteroids, all the time! By Cassidy Ward 3 days ago
NASA's First Ever Asteroid Sample Return Mission Successfully Lands in Utah OSIRIS-REx delivered a sample from the asteroid Bennu. By Cassidy Ward 4 days ago
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Impact Avoidance Mission Is Coming Home with an Asteroid Sample Just a heads up, but the sampled asteroid Bennu could impact Earth in 2182. By Cassidy Ward 1 week ago
NASA snatched a sample of an asteroid, now they’re returning it to Earth In an ideal world, we touch asteroids but they don't touch us. By Cassidy Ward 5 months ago
Sunlight forces tiny asteroids to get rid of their dust bunnies Small asteroid surfaces are dustless, possibly because they're zapped by UV light. By Phil Plait 1 year ago
The best shielding against small meteorite impacts? Cover yourself in rubble Bennu has a natural force field to protect it: Crumbly rocks. By Phil Plait 1 year ago
Electrostatic repulsion may be lofting small rocks off the asteroid Bennu The tiny asteroid is spitting rocks into space. By Phil Plait 1 year ago
OSIRIS-REx is now going to go asteroid hopping to the space rock that once threatened Earth Yes, that asteroid. By Elizabeth Rayne 1 year ago
NASA got a Ryugu sample, and it could be a time capsule of the solar system NASA now has a rare sample from Asteroid Ryugu, and the secrets of the solar system might be hiding in there. By Elizabeth Rayne 1 year ago
Why is the asteroid Bennu’s surface rocky and not smooth? Small asteroids may be more like demolition pits than beaches By Phil Plait 1 year ago
