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When the sky falls: Why and how we track dangerous asteroids

When the sky falls: Why and how we track dangerous asteroids

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In 2013, a meteor exploded over the Russian city of Chelyabinsk with the force of 30 Hiroshima bombs. The blast injured over a thousand people and shattered windows across six cities. Yet the object—roughly 20 meters wide—had gone completely undetected.  That event jolted the world into remembering: space isn’t empty, and Earth isn’t invincible. “Had […]

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Scientists say asteroid ‘Vesta’ might be a piece of a planet that no longer exists

Scientists say asteroid ‘Vesta’ might be a piece of a planet that no longer exists

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Asteroid Vesta, long considered to be a stalled protoplanet, may actually be just a fragment of a larger world that once existed in our solar system. New research suggests that Vesta may not have the dense core that differentiated planetary bodies usually have. Due to spin-rate data and gravity-field mapping, a new study by Michigan […]

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