Travelers In The Night

A Small Telescope Makes A Significant Discovery.

The most common type of asteroids are likely to have started out as giant convecting mud balls which could still exist at the center of large asteroids like Ceres.

The Moon is a destination for human explorers.

Large asteroids lurking inside the Earth's orbit can be hard to spot.

The Dark And Mysterious Sometimes Becomes The Bright And Beautiful.

Small Earth approaching asteroids are part of our environment. Early Detection Is The Key

Fortunately This Asteroid Will Not Spoil Your Day.

The Kepler Space Telescope has discovered more than 50 habitable Earth sized planets orbiting distant stars.

The Trappist-1 solar system consists of a dim red star and 7 Earth sized planets. Humans are beginning to explore this fascinating new potentially habitable destination.

Will Earth evolved Biology allow humans to create sustainable colonies in space, on the Moon, or on Mars?

Astronomers have found the basic ingredients of life in an infant solar system.

Space miners can up their odds by prospecting with ground based telescopes.

NASA's Scout and Sentry software systems allow asteroid hunters to study and keep track of potentially dangerous asteroids.

A 33 foot diameter asteroid has about a 1% chance of impacting the Earth in the distant future.

A tiny space rock which can pass closer to us than the communications satellites may have been ejected from our Moon.

Tabby's star varies in brightness suggesting that it swallowed one or more of it's planets in the very recent past. Cannibal Star or Alien Megastructure?

Laser propelled ultra light space probes could be sent to explore nearby worlds.

Humans can measure signs of life in nearby worlds.

2017 Asteroid day events are being held at more than 500 hundred locations in 72 countries world wide. Participants at Asteroid Day events are encouraged to sign the 100X Declaration which seeks to increase the rate of discovery of potentially damaging space rocks.

Discovering and researching conditions on relatively nearby planets is within our reach.