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Interstellar object ‘Oumuamua believed to be ‘active asteroid’

Scientists believe cigar-shaped visitor to our solar system is fragment of a larger body

Published: 13 Apr 2020

The world’s oldest asteroid strike in Western Australia may have triggered a global thaw

Published: 21 Jan 2020
The moon, Mars and beyond… the space race in 2020

Published: 5 Jan 2020

Be wary of Elon Musk despoiling the ‘vault of heaven’

Martin Rees

It’s feasible to flood space with flotillas of small satellites – but do we really want to?

Published: 29 Dec 2019

Published: 29 Dec 2019

New evidence shows how asteroid dust cloud may have sparked new life on Earth 470m years ago

Isotope found in seabed sediment points to clash of solar bodies near Mars, study suggests

Published: 12 Oct 2019

Spacewatch Spacewatch: Japan's Hayabusa 2 targets final asteroid landing

Two target markers deployed around Ryugu ahead of lander’s planned descent next month

Published: 19 Sep 2019
Dust cloud sparked explosion in primitive life on Earth, say scientists

Smashing of monster asteroid half a billion years ago thought to have caused mini ice age

Published: 18 Sep 2019

The greatest threat to life on Earth may come from space

Asteroids and space debris could wreak untold devastation on the planet

Published: 31 Aug 2019

Ancient asteroid crater located off coast of Scotland

Space object about a mile wide believed to have crashed into Earth around 1.2bn years ago

Published: 9 Jun 2019

Protect solar system from mining 'gold rush', say scientists

Proposal calls for wilderness protection as startup space miners look to the stars

Published: 12 May 2019

Japan’s Hayabusa 2 probe to fire pellet at asteroid to obtain samples

Spacecraft will shoot pellet at more than 650mph into Ryugu’s surface to kick up dust

Published: 21 Feb 2019

Asteroid strikes 'increase threefold over last 300m years'

Planet and moon have been hit by more asteroids in the past 290m years than at any time in previous billion

Published: 17 Jan 2019

Spacewatch Spacewatch: asteroid landing explores a missing link

In the weak gravity, it took the Mascot lander 20 minutes to fall 51 metres to the surface – taking photos and readings

Published: 4 Oct 2018

Asteroid from another star system found orbiting wrong way near Jupiter

For the first time, a permanent member of our solar system has been found to have originated elsewhere

Published: 21 May 2018

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