China has unveiled its mission to impact deliberately a near-Earth asteroid by 2030 – a decisive step toward establishing its planetary defense and asteroid resource utilization capabilities. The move comes three years after the United States successfully conducted its own Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission in 2022, which demonstrated the feasibility of using a […] The post China’s dual-use asteroid-collision research threatens satellites appeared first on Asia Times.| Asia Times
Water may have flowed on the asteroid that birthed the space rock Ryugu a billion years after it formed, much later than previously thought, changing our perception of the early solar system.| Latest from Space.com
If we slam an impactor into an asteroid in exactly the wrong spot, the space rock may pass through a "gravitational keyhole" that brings it to Earth.| Latest from Space.com
Asteroid 2025 QV5, which was first spotted in late August, will make a close approach to Earth on Wednesday (Sept. 3). It will not get this near to us again until Sept. 4, 2125.| Latest from Live Science
Keith’s note: NASA has a Planetary Defense Program. They want to find asteroids that might pose a risk before they pose a threat. The other day the Vera Rubin Observatory released imagery of a variety of objects including 2,104 previously unknown asteroids discovered in just a few hours by this new instrument. NASA has ignored the Rubin observatory’s debut altogether while the rest of the world stopped to pay attention. […] The post NASA Planetary Defense Ignores Rubin Observatory’s A...| Space & Planetary Science Archives - NASA Watch
Scientists increase the odds asteroid 2024 YR4 will impact the Moon in 2032| behindtheblack.com
Welcome to Weeklies, where I recap some of the weird links I’ve shared on the homepage over the past week! Bad news for anyone who might have been looking forward to a light show in 2032: Asteroid…| Stranger Dimensions
Utah based Alan-1 has begun shipping their Asteroids Recharged game that first debuted at Amusement Expo 2024 earlier this year.| Arcade Heroes
In this paper and blog series, I suggest that the scope of longtermism may be narrower than many longtermists suppose.| Reflective altruism
Scientists estimate that Nördlingen and the surrounding area contain approximately 72,000 tons of the gemstone| Smithsonian Magazine
Atari and Alan-1 have officially announced Asteroids Recharged Arcade for release to locations in the US.| Arcade Heroes
The Kickstarter for the next anthology by Lagrange Books, Asteroids! Stories of Space Adventure, is closing in on its final week. Backers can get all kinds of cool perks, like discounts on our previous anthologies, so definitely check it out. Also, we’ve been posting interviews with the authors and sneak peeks of their stories, soContinue reading "Sci-Fi Anthology Kickstarter in the Home Stretch!"| Lagrange Books