March 1, 2019

How to stop dangerous asteroids?

NASA is planning to capture one. Its Asteroid Redirect Mission may attempt to nab an asteroid in a space probe’s “capture bag” and release the roving […]
March 1, 2019

Why would we want to visit the asteroid belt?

There’s gold (and other precious metals) in those rocks! In fact, a company called Planetary Resources plans to send robot miners to the asteroid belt. The […]
March 1, 2019

What’s the difference between an asteroid, a meteor and a meteorite?

Asteroids are roving rocks found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. A Meteor also known as shooting stars, meteors are places of rocks or […]
March 1, 2019

Isn’t it too dangerous to visit the Asteroid belt?

Although movies portray asteroid belts as spaceship-smashing jumbles of rock, our solar system’s real asteroid belt isn’t nearly so treacherous. The average distance between rocks is […]