Los Angeles Times

Asteroid 2013 NE19 will zoom past Earth today: Watch it live

An asteroid roughly the size of a football field will make its closest approach to Earth on Monday, and you can watch it zip through the sky, live, right here. A live feed of asteroid 2013 NE19, ...
The Atlantic

Mini-CNN Reporter Survives Run-in with Giant Fake Asteroids

They say that technological adaptation is driven by porn. That is wrong. It is driven by CNN. The network that brought you both hologram Will.i.am and hologram sheep has a new tool in its arsenal: the ...
The Atlantic

Obama's New Budget Would Fund Asteroid Lassoing

The budget for 2014 that President Obama will propose next Wednesday bears all the hallmarks of a man who no longer has to worry about winning an election. There's something in there to piss off ...
Purdue University

Expert: Asteroid would explode like a thermonuclear weapon

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — If the asteroid rapidly approaching us this week were to impact rather than nearly miss Earth, it would explode with a four-megaton force near what the military calls optimum ...
inforum

Hubble sees freaky asteroid P/2013 P5 sprout six tails

Back in August, astronomers using the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) survey telescope in Hawaii discovered an unusually fuzzy-looking object dubbed P/2013 P5. Later, ...
Gizmodo

On the disintegration of Asteroid P/2013 R3

Hubble captured the epic disintegration of P/2013 R3 with no easily-identified external trigger. No collision, so what happened? Months and months of great weather. (Yes, in space. Read on for the ...