The asteroid #Pallas, the second to be discovered, was clearly identified on #ThisDayInHistory in 1802. German astronomer #HeinrichWMOlbers pinpointed the highly eccentric, high-inclination #asteroid that is likely a #protoplanet left over from the formation of our solar system.

We could protect Earth from dangerous asteroids using a huge magnet We could deflect potentially hazardous asteroids by using an enormous magnet to gently pull them apart. This idea avoids some of the pitfalls of the more traditional kinetic impactor method, which involves smashing something into an asteroid to move it, but it has yet to be tested, so we can’t be sure it would work. The idea is called non-contact orbital velocity adjustment, or NOVA, and Gunther Kletetschka at the University of Alaska Fairbanks presented it at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas on 17 March. In his calculations, he applied the NOVA concept to an asteroid called 2024 YR4, which briefly seemed like it might be on a trajectory to hit Earth or the moon in 2032, although further observations showed that it will pass safely by. The asteroid is small, less than 70 metres across, so it would present a relatively simple target to shift. The spacecraft itself would consist of a large magnet made from a coil of superconducting wire, about 20 metres in diameter, powered by a nuclear fission reactor. Small boosters would control its orbit around the asteroid, keeping it about 10 to 15 metres from the rock, so the magnet could act...

We could protect Earth from dangerous asteroids using a huge magnet
->New Scientist | More on "Magnet deflection protecting Earth asteroids" at BigEarthData.ai | #Space #Asteroid #Earth

892-140m-asteroids Humans can mitigate the damage done by the impact of an asteroid given a sufficient lead time. In 1998, the US Congress mandated NASA to detect and track 90% of the 1 km sized asteroids capable of effecting local mass destruction as well as global disruption of agriculture and other human activities. This goal has been accomplished. In 2005 Congress extended the mandate to require NASA to detect and track 90% of the 140-m asteroids capable of destroying a large metropolitan area.

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And another #Asteroid missed.

2026 FS5; 45th known to pass within 1 lunar distance of Earth since the start of the year and the third closest so far, after 2026 EM on March 7 at 0.072 LD and 2026 DN5 on February 22 at 0.112 LD.

First observed on March 22, 9 hours after it passed!.

Google Issues New Warning About the Quantum Computing Security Apocalypse — Gizmodo The theoretical eventuality known as Q-Day may arrive much sooner than previously thought.

😖 So which will it be? Will the #apocalypse be caused by #AI, #quantumcomputing or good ole #nuclearwar 🤯? Maybe all of them together?

☄️I vote city-sized #asteroid impact!!!

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Google Issues New Warning About the Quantum Computing Security Apocalypse — Gizmodo The theoretical eventuality known as Q-Day may arrive much sooner than previously thought.

😖 So which will it be? Will the #apocalypse be caused by #AI, #quantumcomputing or good ole #nuclearwar 🤯? Maybe all of them together?

☄️I vote city-sized #asteroid impact!!!

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Cover page of paper

Amirah's work just published:

Guiding asteroids to form an artificial binary system using continuous
control acceleration

#free #openaccess: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actaastro.2026.03.024

#space #asteroid #PhD #UofG #research

Asteroid Samples Contain Complete Set Of DNA Building Blocks All five DNA bases found in asteroid samples, confirming life’s core chemistry exists beyond Earth in space material.

🧬 All 5 DNA Bases Found In Asteroid Material 🧬

A G C T U confirmed inside samples from Ryugu. Life’s core chemistry exists beyond Earth. #Space #DNA #Asteroid #Science #OriginsOfLife

Full article: www.abovethenormnews.com/2026/03/25/d...

Dedicated Amateur Beats All-Sky Surveys to Asteroid Discovery A recent discovery highlights how amateurs can still make asteroid discoveries in a brave new era of all-sky surveys. It’s getting tough for amateur astronomers to breakthrough with new discoveries. Gone is the era of the lone amateur on a windswept hill sketching a star field from night to the next, looking for an errant ‘star’ that has moved against the background field heralding a new star or comet. The modern era of all-sky surveys including Pan-STARRS, ATLAS and now the Vera C. Rubin Observatory has given amateur astronomers some stiff competition. But many amateurs have simply upped their game, and took their quest online. The ability to access remote observatories has really helped in this regard. One recent discovery highlights this growing trend. Amateur astronomer Filipp Romanov was able to nab the fast-moving asteroid 2026 CQ3 flitting through the constellation Leo last month on the night of February 15th, 2026. “I requested the imaging of 15 photos (with 60-second exposures on the 2-meter Liverpool Telescope) to confirm one of the Main Belt asteroids I had found.” Filipp told Universe Today. “When they were taken and I looked through them, I saw a fast-moving (about 18 arcseconds per minute) faint...

Dedicated Amateur Beats All-Sky Surveys to Asteroid Discovery
->Universe Today | More on "Amateur asteroid discovery beats surveys" at BigEarthData.ai | #Space #Asteroid

NASA's Psyche Mission to an Asteroid that may be the core of a destroyed planet

#space #exploration #asteroid

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381E-417-Red Dwarf Planets Astronomers continue to be delighted when they discover an Earth sized planet. Scientists were thus very disappointed when the red dwarf star hosting the nearest such planet, Proxima b some 4.2 light years away, turns out to have the nasty habit of emitting bursts of radiation which are likely to sterilize and/or remove the atmospheres of it's family of planets. Recently, hope of finding a nearby Earth was rekindled when scientists at the European Southern observatory in Chile discovered a small planet circling what appears to be a quiet well behaved red dwarf star 11 light years from us. Astronomers are not yet sure that this newly discovered Earth sized planet lies within it's stars habitable zone where liquid water could exist on it's surface. Jumping the gun, ET enthusiasts have beamed a friendly message in the direction of another nearby red dwarf planet system. Their target the super Earth planet, GJ 273b is located some 12.4 light years away near the bright star Sirius in the constellation of Canis Major. At this distance a civilization on GJ 273b could have already received a picture of humanity by deciphering 'I love Lucy' and other TV signals it has been picking up for 50 years or so. The next generation of very large telescopes will allow astronomers to search for the presence of oxygen and other molecules which indicate the presence of life in the atmospheres of nearby worlds. In the mean time we have more reasons to be thankful for what we have here on planet Earth. For Travelers in the Night this is Dr. Al Grauer. Go to travelersinthenight.org program 417 for more information.

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Exogorth Escape, Digital artwork, 2026
#art #digitalart #starwars #starwarsfan #starwarsfanart #exogorth #millenniumfalcon #space #spaceart #asteroid #slug #worm #monster #monsterart #creature #neon #scifi #scifiart #sciencefiction #spaceopera #empirestrikesback

The very large asteroid with the reflection of the sun makes it so beautiful
@justabout.com @eveonline.com @ccpgames.com
#justcreators #eveonline #asteroid

The fireball was produced by an #asteroid ☄️ nearly 6 feet in diameter and weighing about 7 tons. The fragments turned to #meteorites in the vicinity of Medina County, #Ohio www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/us/ohio-cleve...

An asteroid sample contains all the key components for life on Earth Life on Earth may have origins from far, far away. Scientists have found a full set of life-building molecules in a nearly pristine asteroid sample. The discovery suggests that the necessary ingredients to kick-start the evolution of life on Earth may have come from a celestial-body delivery. It also raises questions as to whether more complex molecules are present all over the solar system. Back to basics Asteroid Ryugu has all five of the primary nucleobases, according to a study published in the journal Nature Astronomy. The nucleobases, — adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine and uracil — are “compounds that make up the nucleic acids DNA and RNA when combined with sugars and phosphoric acid,” said New Scientist. They are the building blocks of the genetic code, and life as we know it could not exist without them. The bases are split into two categories: purines (adenine and guanine) and pyrimidines (thymine, cytosine and uracil). Samples of asteroid Ryugu were collected by the Japanese Aerospace Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa2 mission. The samples were brought to Earth in December 2020. Asteroids like Ryugu “formed 4.6 billion years ago when the planets were being born around the infant sun,” said Space.com (a sister site...

An asteroid sample contains all the key components for life on Earth
->The Week | More on "Asteroid Ryugu life-building molecules" at BigEarthData.ai | #Asteroid #Earth #Space

The Facts And Fiction Of Asteroid Mining: We Spoke To For All Mankind's Producers Ahead Of Season 5 The reality of actual asteroid mining is far from simple; but the idea, which has proliferated in fiction, has taken some tentative steps forward over the last decade or so. With the upcoming release of season five of For All Mankind on Apple TV – which focuses, among other things, on asteroid mining – we spoke to the series' executive producers to talk about the choice of such a topic and what we know about it in reality. For All Mankind is an alternative history TV show whose premise sees the Soviet Union beating the United States to the Moon. The consequence of that is an escalation of the Cold War in space, leading humanity down a whole different path where human presence on the Moon and far beyond is a given, unlike the world of today. In season four, the discovery of the "Goldilocks" asteroid, possessing 70,000 metric tons of iridium, became an important plot point. In the show, it is worth 20 trillion dollars, and the race is on to place it in a stable orbit around Earth for extraction. People working on Mars and with a stake in its future, though, have another idea. <span class="fr-mk" style="display:...

The Facts And Fiction Of Asteroid Mining: We Spoke To For All Mankind's Producers Ahead Of Season 5
->IFLScience | More on "Asteroid mining space exploration fiction" at BigEarthData.ai | #Asteroid #Space

#NeildeGrasseTyson explains risk of an #asteroid hitting Earth

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The #ESA wants to investigate how the #asteroid deforms during its flyby of Earth and how its trajectory could be influenced should #Apophis ☄️ become a threat to Earth in the future. About a week after the Earth flyby, a […]

Vorbeiflug an Erde 2029: Mehrere Landungsmissionen auf Apophis geplant Der Asteroid Apophis wird im Frühjahr 2029 sehr nah an der Erde vorbeifliegen. Mehrere Sonden sollen in diesem Zeitraum auf ihm landen.

Der Asteroid Apophis wird im Frühjahr 2029 sehr nah an der Erde vorbeifliegen. Mehrere Sonden sollen in diesem Zeitraum auf ihm landen. #sfcd #esa #nasa #apophis #asteroid #weltraum #universum #kosmos #science #wissenschaft

#Lifeforms can #planethop on #asteroid #debris—and #survive

Certain hardy bacterium tucked into debris from an asteroid hit could catapult to other planets—including Earth—and survive, a new Johns Hopkins University study finds.... scitechupdates.com/l...

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Save Earth From an Asteroid — And He’s Building the Hardware to Do It Blue Origin is positioning itself as a planetary defense contractor, proposing to use its New Glenn roc...

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Samples From Distant Asteroid Contain All DNA and RNA Building Blocks Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Email address Thank you! In June 2019, a Japanese spacecraft called Hayabusa2 touched down on Ryugu, a 3,000-foot asteroid some 185 million miles from Earth. It then proceeded to fire a metal bullet at the surface, dislodging enough material to scoop up with a special “sampling horn” to take back home to our planet. Scientists have been poring over the extremely rare samples ever since to study the near-Earth asteroid with the hope of learning about how the building blocks of planets evolved over time — and just maybe how life on our planet first came to be. The latest findings, published in the journal Nature Astronomy by a team of researchers in Japan, tell a fascinating story: Ryugu appears to contain all the necessary ingredients to make the DNA and RNA underpinning life on Earth. The conclusion supports the theory that errant space rocks like Ryugu could have brought life to Earth billions of years ago. “Their detection in Ryugu strongly supports their ubiquity in the solar system,” coauthor and Hokkaido University post-doctoral researcher Yasuhiro Oba told New Scientist. Oba and his colleagues examined surface and subsurface samples brought...

Samples From Distant Asteroid Contain All DNA and RNA Building Blocks
->Futurism | More on "Asteroid Ryugu DNA RNA building blocks" at BigEarthData.ai | #Asteroid #Space

Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks, bolstering origin-of-life theories All the essential ingredients to make the DNA and RNA underpinning life on Earth have been discovered in samples collected from the asteroid Ryugu, scientists said Monday.

😀🧪How cool is this?! More proof, we are Stardust... phys.org/news/2026-03... #dna #rna #asteroid #earth #life #stardust
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Ryugu asteroid sample contains all five key components of DNA, scientists find A sample collected by the Hayabusa 2 spacecraft from the spinning top-like asteroid contained the nucleobases adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine, and uracil.

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#DNA #asteroid

An asteroid I made for a game I'm currently working on about space exploration and liberty. There's a photo of the viewport and the final render, hope you enjoy.

#3d #blender #game #art #space #asteroid

Inside the Audacious Plan to Bag Asteroids and Drag Them Into Near-Orbit for Mining The aerospace industry has a new, highly ambitious (some might say crazy) plan for securing off-world resources: catching a 100-ton asteroid in a giant inflatable bag and dragging it back to Earth’s orbit. The audacious plan was revealed by Los Angeles-based startup TransAstra. The “New Moon” mission is a project designed to rendezvous with a house-sized space rock weighing roughly 100 metric tonnes and move it to a stable location near our planet. There, they want to crack it open and mine it. Funded by an unnamed customer, the company is currently finalizing a feasibility study with a clear goal: turning a captured asteroid into a robotic mining outpost. “We envision it becoming a base for robotic research and development on materials processing and manufacturing,” said Joel Sercel, chief executive officer of TransAstra, told Ars Technica. If successful, the first retrieval mission could launch as early as 2028. By relocating an asteroid to the Earth-moon system or the Earth-Sun L2 point — a stable gravitational pocket about 1.5 million kilometers away where objects are essentially stationary relative to Earth — TransAstra hopes to fundamentally alter how we source water and valuable metals for deep space exploration. The Asteroid Heist You...

Inside the Audacious Plan to Bag Asteroids and Drag Them Into Near-Orbit for Mining
->ZME Science | More on "Asteroid capture space mining mission" at BigEarthData.ai | #Asteroid #Space

We've spotted a huge asteroid spinning impossibly fast The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has spotted the fastest-rotating large asteroid ever seen. Despite measuring more than half a kilometre across, this asteroid spins about once every 1.9 minutes – a speed once thought to be impossible. Dmitrii Vavilov at the University of Washington in Seattle and his colleagues found this asteroid, along with several other surprisingly speedy rotators, in the data from Rubin’s first nine nights of observations in late April and early May 2025. Vavilov presented the results at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas on 17 March. In that observation period, the researchers identified 76 asteroids for which they could reliably calculate rotational periods, with 19 of those being so-called super-fast rotators, spinning once every 2.2 hours or faster. That figure is the limit of how fast a “rubble pile” asteroid, made up of many smaller rocks loosely held together by gravity, can spin without falling apart. The vast majority of asteroids are thought to be rubble piles, so the researchers didn’t expect to find many rotating faster than once every 2.2 hours. The fastest of the super-fast rotators spins once every 13 minutes or so. In their first set of analyses, the...

We've spotted a huge asteroid spinning impossibly fast
->New Scientist | More on "Fast-spinning large asteroid discovered" at BigEarthData.ai | #Asteroid #Space

Private company to land on asteroid Apophis as it flies close to Earth Two landers from a private US company will be part of an armada to asteroid Apophis when it flies past Earth in 2029. Apophis, about 400 metres across, was discovered in 2004. Initial calculations showed it had an alarmingly high chance of hitting Earth – up to 2.7 per cent – in April 2029, in which case it could destroy an area the size of a city. Later refinements showed there was no chance of impact for at least 100 years. Nevertheless, on 13 April 2029, the asteroid will pass extremely close to Earth, just 32,000 kilometres away, closer than geostationary satellites and near enough that it will be visible to the naked eye, a once-in-thousands-of-years event for an asteroid of this size. Multiple spacecraft from the US, Europe, Japan and China are planning to study the asteroid before, during and after the flyby. Among those missions, the US company ExLabs has announced that its mothership spacecraft, called ApophisExL, passed a key review phase ahead of a planned launch in 2028. It will carry up to 10 spacecraft and instruments from different customers, including two landers, one from an unnamed source, and another from Japan’s Chiba Institute of Technology. “The...

Private company to land on asteroid Apophis as it flies close to Earth
->New Scientist | More on "Apophis asteroid Earth flyby 2029" at BigEarthData.ai | #Asteroid #Earth #Space #Land

891-2026-AA My Catalina Sky Survey teammate Tracie Beuden was observing with our Schmidt telescope on Mt. Bigelow, Arizona in the constellation of Persus when she found the first asteroid of 2026. Asteroid hunters are trying to like Tracie's discovery with our number on it far enough in advance so humans could give it a tiny nudge and make it miss Earth.

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All 5 'letters' of DNA found on an asteroid speeding through our solar system. What do they tell us about the origins of life? JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA, suggesting these ingredients of life may be common in the solar system.

#DNA building blocks are discovered on #asteroid Ryugu.
"...these findings suggest that nucleobases could be widespread in the solar system."
(Also possible that we underestimate our ability to contaminate things we examine.)

#Life #Space