Collaborate Disseminate
Scientists find that a surge in Earth impacts began during the Permian period, possibly because of disruptions in the asteroid belt. Continue reading Asteroids Crash Into Earth Over Twice as Often as 290 Million Years Ago
Asteroids is one of the classic games of the early arcade era. Launched in 1979 by Atari, it relied upon using an XY vector monitor to deliver crisp graphics for its space-based gameplay. One of the limitations of the original arcade games was that the game was only rendered in a single colour, white. Over 30 years later, [Arcade Jason] decided to see what it would take to build a color Asteroids machine.
The hack relies on the fact that the original game used a four-bit resistor ladder DAC to draw vectors in different intensity levels. Through some ingeniously simple …read more
A University of Glasgow team explores the subtle art of capturing asteroids without killing everybody. Continue reading Scientists Map Out How to Nudge Small Asteroids into Earth’s Orbit
The European Gaia telescope releases data on 1.7 billion stars. Continue reading Watch These Stunning Models of the Largest Star Map Ever Created
Earth survived the solar system’s tumultuous infancy more or less intact. Other planets were not so lucky. Continue reading These Alien Diamonds Belonged to a Lost Mars-Sized World
Lindley Johnson is NASA’s Planetary Defense Officer and in many ways, the fate of the Earth rests in his hands. But he’s not stressed about it. Continue reading This Asteroid Hunter Is Tasked With Saving Earth from Killer Impacts
For all its simplicity, the arcade classic Asteroids was engaging in the extreme, with the ping of the laser, the rumble of the rocket, the crash of crumbling space rocks, and that crazy warble when the damn flying saucers made an appearance. Atari estimates that the game has earned operators in excess of $500 million since it was released in 1979. That’s two billion quarters, and we’ll guess a fair percentage of those coins came from the pockets of Hackaday’s readers and staff alike.
One iconic part of Asteroids was the vector display. Each item on the field was drawn …read more
Continue reading Light Replaces Electrons for Giant Vector-Graphics Asteroids Game
Lucy will visit six of Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids, while Psyche will aim for the exposed, metal-rich core of an ancient protoplanet. Continue reading NASA Announces Exotic Asteroid Missions, Fueling Space Mining Hopes
The tiny European country is betting it all on riches from space. Continue reading Why Luxembourg, Of All Places, Is a Global Leader in Asteroid Mining