Multiple Asteroid Flyby Missions (1971)

Pioneer 10/11. Image credit: NASA Between 1 January 1801, when asteroid 1 Ceres was discovered, and March 1971, when the International Astro...

MIT Saves the World: Project Icarus (1967)

Image credit: NASA Walter Baade used the 48-inch reflecting telescope at Palomar Observatory in southern California to capture humankind...

Fun with Killer Asteroids

I wrote the post below in January of this year for my WIRED Science Blog Beyond Apollo during a senseless media frenzy centered on a not-ve...

Missions to Comet d'Arrest & Asteroid Eros in the 1970s (1966)

Comet Ikeya-Seki lights the dawn at Kitt Peak on 29 October 1965. Image credit: Roger Lynds/NOAO/AURA/NSF The comet now designated C/1965 S1...

Earth-Approaching Asteroids as Targets for Exploration (1978)

The Hayabusa spacecraft imaged Near-Earth Asteroid 25143 Itokawa in 2005. Itokawa, a "rubble pile" made up of many fragments large...