Get your 2021 Asteroid Day postcard and stamp from POST Luxembourg Philately. POST Philately issues stamps and handles philatelic orders from subscribers and customers. For their 2021 stamp and postcard,…
We share the solar system with a vast population of asteroids. Starlike and mysterious, these space rocks are a fascinating collection of worldlets that date to the origin of the…
Asteroid Eros, as seen by NASA’s NEAR Shoemaker mission. Credit: NASA/JPL/JHUAPL The first discovery of asteroids in the 1800s, unleashed a flood of curiosity about their composition and their role…
Artist’s concept of Lucy spacecraft at Trojan asteroid. Credit: NASA. Asteroids are much more than left-over remnants of planetary formation, they could be the keys to the future economy. A…
Not all asteroids live inside the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. ESA’s Near-Earth Object Coordination Centre lists more than 25,000 that are classified as near-Earth objects (NEOs). Of these,…