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NASA's Solar Observing Fleet to Watch Comet ISON's Journey around the Sun
Nov 26, 2013 (SPX)
It began in the Oort cloud, almost a light year away. It has traveled for over a million years. It has almost reached the star that has pulled it steadily forwa...
NASA, Planetary Resources Sign Agreement to Crowdsource Asteroid Detection
Nov 25, 2013 (SPX)
NASA and Planetary Resources Inc., of Bellevue, Wash., are partnering to develop crowd-sourced software solutions to enhance detection of near-Earth objects usi...
Physicist's journey reveals smaller asteroids could cause bigger problems
Nov 25, 2013 (SPX)
Once in a lifetime, a physicist may get a chance to test his theories and simulations in a real-life event that changes the course of his scientific life. But r...
Comet ISON, hype aside, is an intriguing cosmic visitor
Nov 24, 2013 (UPI)
Comet of the century. Super comet. Hyped by the media and the subject of a couple of drum-beating TV documentaries, a dusty cosmic snowball named Comet ISON has...
Asteroids should be colonized or used as transport to planets
Nov 22, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
The potential colonization of asteroids is one of the most promising areas of space exploration - even more so than mining them for resources, Russian scientist...
Scientists find that Mars, not Earth, shakes up some near-Earth asteroids
Nov 22, 2013 (SPX)
For nearly as long as astronomers have been able to observe asteroids, a question has gone unanswered: Why do the surfaces of most asteroids appear redder than ...
MicroObservatory Catches Comet ISON
Nov 20, 2013 (SPX)
Hopes are high for Comet ISON, which has the potential to become the most spectacular comet seen in years. ISON is speeding through the inner solar system at ab...
Comet ISON: What's Next?
Nov 18, 2013 (SPX)
Comet ISON is now inside the orbit of Earth as it plunges headlong toward the sun for a fiery close encounter on Nov. 28th. Although the comet is not yet as bri...
When is a comet not a comet?
Nov 11, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a unique and baffling object in the asteroid belt that looks like a rotating lawn sprinkler ...
'Freakish' asteroid discovered, resembles rotating lawn sprinkler
Nov 11, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers have discovered a "weird and freakish object" resembling a rotating lawn sprinkler in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The find, reported...
BRRISON Lifts Off To Study Comet ISON
Nov 07, 2013 (SPX)
The Balloon Rapid Response for ISON (BRRISON) payload lifted off at 8:10 p.m. EDT from Ft. Sumner, N.M., on a mission that primarily includes the sun-grazing Co...
It's Complicated: Dawn Spurs Rewrite of Vesta's Story
Nov 07, 2013 (JPL)
Just when scientists thought they had a tidy theory for how the giant asteroid Vesta formed, a new paper from NASA's Dawn mission suggests the history is more c...
Six-tailed asteroid stuns scientists
Nov 07, 2013 (AFP)
A strange asteroid that appears to have multiple rotating tails has been spotted with NASA's Hubble telescope between Mars and Jupiter, astronomers said Thursda...
Astronomers Establish the Strength of High-Inclination Asteroids
Nov 07, 2013 (SPX)
A team of astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and the University of Hyogo used the Subaru Prime Focus Camera (Suprime-Cam) mounted o...
Surprising Recent Discoveries of Three Large Near-Earth Objects
Nov 07, 2013 (JPL)
Two surprisingly large Near-Earth Asteroids have been discovered in just the last week or so, as well as a third moderately large asteroid which surprisingly ha...
Comet ISON Roars Through Leo
Nov 06, 2013 (SPX)
In the early morning of Oct. 25 (6:45 a.m. EDT), NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., used a 14" telescope to capture this image of Comet C/...
Dawn Enjoying Smooth Travels Deep In The Main Asteroid Belt
Nov 05, 2013 (JPL)
Deep in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Dawn is continuing its smooth, silent flight toward dwarf planet Ceres. Far behind it now is the giant ...
Another hazardous asteroid to dart close to Earth in 2065
Oct 29, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Russian astronomers have discovered another potentially dangerous asteroid that is estimated to dart past Earth in 2065 at a distance of only 7,000km. The Aster...
Space cannon ready: Japan to shoot asteroid for samples in 2014 mission
Oct 24, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
A unique space cannon developed for Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has successfully test-fired on Earth in preparation for a 2014 mission. During its upcoming jo...
Is the 'Christmas Comet' cracking up?
Oct 22, 2013 (AFP)
An incoming comet that skygazers had hoped would provide one of the greatest celestial shows of the century, could be a fizzle. So say astronomers tracking the ...
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