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Halloween fireballs could signal increased risk of cosmic impact or airburst in 2032 and 2036
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Oct 30, 2025 Every year, the Taurid meteor shower lights up the night sky from late October through early November. Sometimes called the "Halloween fireballs", they are named for the constellation Taurus-the bull-from which the meteors appear to radiate, the shower is best viewed from dark-sky locations. In New Mexico, where wide-open spaces and low light pollution offer some of the clearest skies in the country, stargazers have a front-row seat to the spectacle. Meteors are flashes and streaks of light that a ... read more |
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Europe advances asteroid defense as GomSpace secures operational support contractBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 27, 2025 GomSpace has entered into an 8.4 million SEK agreement with SPACEBEL to implement the Juventas Operations segment for the European Space Agency's Hera mission. The partnership will utilize HOOP Miss ... more
Asteroid with Second-Fastest Orbit Discovered Hidden in SunlightBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 21, 2025 A newly discovered asteroid has been found racing around the Sun in just 128 days, making it the Solar System's second-fastest known orbiting asteroid. Designated 2025 SC79, the object was detected ... more
Asteroid near Earth detected hours after it passed the planetWashington DC (UPI) Oct 8, 2025 International space agencies say an asteroid zipped by Earth closer than a large number of satellites currently in orbit, but was not detected until hours later. ... more 
Gaia data uncovers hidden link between asteroid collisions and chaotic spin statesBerlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 07, 2025 Whether an asteroid spins smoothly or tumbles chaotically depends on how often it has collided with other objects, according to new findings presented at the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki. ... more |
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Invisible asteroids near Venus may pose long-term danger to EarthSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 An international team led by Sao Paulo State University (UNESP) has uncovered a population of asteroids that may threaten Earth but remain effectively hidden from current surveys. These objects, whi ... more 
Traces of life detected in Finnish crater shed light on origins of life on EarthLondon, Canada (SPX) Sep 25, 2025 An international team of scientists, including Western University's Gordon Osinski, has for the first time dated the emergence of microorganisms inside a meteorite crater, demonstrating that life de ... more
Asteroid target for Hayabusa2 found to be smaller and faster than expectedParis, France (SPX) Sep 22, 2025 Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and other facilities worldwide have discovered that asteroid 1998 KY26, the final target of Japan's Hayabusa2 mission, is s ... more 
Cosmic glass in Australia reveals traces of massive asteroid strikeSydney, Australia (SPX) Sep 22, 2025 Curtin University scientists have identified evidence of a giant asteroid impact hidden in tiny fragments of natural glass, known as tektites, found only in Australia. Tektites form when a spa ... more 
Amateur astronomers help track asteroid to French impact siteParis (AFP) Sept 19, 2025 With help from amateur astronomers, scientists tracked how an asteroid travelled from space, broke up in Earth's atmosphere and sent fiery fragments shooting to the ground, gathering new information about how these space rocks disintegrate. ... more |
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Finding safe impact zones to deflect hazardous asteroids
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 11, 2025 Selecting the point of impact for a kinetic deflection mission is not trivial, according to research unveiled at the EPSC-DPS2025 Joint Meeting in Helsinki. Striking the wrong location could nudge a hazardous asteroid through a gravitational keyhole and set up a future Earth encounter. "Even if we intentionally push an asteroid away from Earth with a space mission, we must make sure it doesn't drift into one of these keyholes afterwards. Otherwise, we'd be facing the same impact threat again down ... read more 
ESA and JAXA weigh joint effort for Apophis flyby missionParis, France (SPX) Sep 01, 2025 ESA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) are moving closer to a joint mission to the asteroid Apophis, which will pass Earth at a record-setting distance in 2029. The proposed Rap ... more |
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Bennu samples reveal shifting asteroid colors as planetary scientist links spectra to surface agesWest Lafayette IN (SPX) Aug 26, 2025 New results from OSIRIS-REx, NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, reveals why some gray asteroids reflect light at different wavelengths, like red or blue, more strongly. How these asteroids ... more 
Asteroid family link strengthened by SwRI analysis of Bennu and RyuguLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2025 A Southwest Research Institute study of near-Earth asteroids Bennu and Ryugu provides compelling evidence that both objects originated from the Polana collisional family in the main asteroid belt be ... more 
Two different types of asteroids may actually share same origin storyLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2025 Approximately 4.6 billion years ago our solar system formed from a huge disk of gas and dust orbiting our Sun. The asteroids we see today are some of the most complete artifacts of this formation le ... more 
Ceres once held deep energy reserves that may have supported lifeLos Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 21, 2025 The dwarf planet is cold now, but new research paints a picture of Ceres hosting a deep, long-lived energy source that may have maintained habitable conditions in the past. New NASA research h ... more 
Close-up views of NASA's DART impact to inform planetary defenseGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 22, 2025 On Sept. 11, 2022, engineers at a flight control center in Turin, Italy, sent a radio signal into deep space. Its destination was NASA's DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft flying t ... more |
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