News Archive / Tagged: asteroids

• Robotic spacecraft spent 2018 exploring the solar system and cosmos

  Laurel KornfeldDecember 31st, 2018

  Robotic spacecraft launched by the world's space agencies spent 2018 studying the Sun, planets and asteroids as well as the cosmos beyond the Solar System.

• Who needs the Guardians of the Galaxy when we have OSIRIS-REx?

  Cullen DesforgesDecember 10th, 2018

  Last week, a spacecraft arrived at one of the smallest objects ever visited by a NASA mission after a multi-billion mile journey around the Solar System.

• OSIRIS-REx arrives at Bennu asteroid

  Laurel KornfeldDecember 4th, 2018

  NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has successfully arrived at its destination, the asteroid Bennu.

• Mission to Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids given the go ahead

  Jason RhianOctober 31st, 2018

  NASA's missions to the largest planet in our solar system, Jupiter, have focused on the giant gas planet itself. This could soon change as the space agency has just given the go ahead for the development of a spacecraft designed to study tiny bodies that travel alongside the "king of the planets."

• Japan successfully lands two small rovers on asteroid Ryugu

  Tomasz NowakowskiSeptember 23rd, 2018

  Touchdown! JAXA has made history at asteroid Ryugu!

• New study rejects IAU rationale for demoting Pluto

  Laurel KornfeldSeptember 13th, 2018

  Is Pluto a planet? A new study questions the controversial decision that was handed down by the International Astronomical Union.