Asteroids, Comets in outer space

Geologist Walter Alvarez gets to the bottom of a scientific murder mystery.. (2020)

Could we really deflect an asteroid heading for Earth in 2022? An expert explains NASA’s latest DART mission. (2021)

Bright dots that look like snow are in fact stars... (2018)

Astronomers have found a large object entering our solar system – it could be an unusually large comet or even a minor planet, and it will get near... (2021)

These new details about how the climate could have dramatically changed following the impact of a 10-kilometer-wide asteroid will be published Aug.... (2017)

We’re not in immediate danger of any asteroids colliding with Earth — at least not as far as anyone’s aware. But it’s not like it hasn’t happened b... (2020)

Deeper space Elon Musk’s Tesla roadster, which launched on top of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy earlier today, is going farther out into the Solar Syste... (2018)

WIRED: The first-ever graduate program for space miners-in-training is set to launch next year. And the inaugural class is already taking lessons. (2017)