Asteroid 2023 BU Is a ‘Near-Earth’ Asteroid
Photo: frantic00 (Shutterstock) On Thursday, Jan. 26, Asteroid 2023 BU will buzz by the earth. The asteroid is small, less than five meters wide, but it’s coming in close. The…
Bet You Can’t Spot the Elusive ‘Christmas Asteroid’
Photo: Vadim Sadovski (Shutterstock) The European Space Agency has a challenge for you: Spot asteroid 2015 RN35. They’re calling it the “Christmas Asteroid,” and it’s in view of much of…
How to Watch NASA Crash a Spaceship Into an Asteroid
Photo: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman In a first-of-its-kind mission, NASA is planning to crash a spacecraft into an asteroid on September 26 (Earth time), and you’ll be able to stream…
How to Find and Report Asteroids Because Your Life Is Boring Otherwise
Photo: AstroStar (Shutterstock) Along with puzzles, knitting, and baking banana bread, backyard astronomy was something a lot of people got into at the beginning of the pandemic. Two years later,…
How to Watch Android 1994 PC1 Hurtle Past Earth Today
Photo: Eshma (Shutterstock) This evening, a huge asteroid known as 7482 (1994 PC1) will make its closest approach to us Earthlings for the next 200 years. It’ll pass us by…
Should You Be Worried About the ‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid Passing by Earth Today?
Photo: Dima Zel (Shutterstock) Today, even as you struggle to focus on work after the extended weekend you hopefully enjoyed, a giant space rock is screaming through space within a…