IRON AND ICE - RADAR DAILY

Oct 18, 2013 (SPX)

A new image of the sunward plunging Comet ISON suggests that the comet is intact despite some predictions that the fragile icy nucleus might disintegrate as the...

Spacecraft images of asteroid reinforce telescope observations

Oct 17, 2013 (UPI)

NASA scientists say a spacecraft's close-up view of an asteroid can work with ground-based telescopes to clarify our understanding of a solar system object. The...

Comet ISON Details Emerge as it Races Toward the Sun

Oct 16, 2013 (SPX)

Scientists are unraveling more information on Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) as it continues on its journey toward the Sun. Comet C/ISON will skim 730,000 miles above t...

Rosetta: 100 days to wake-up

Oct 16, 2013 (ESA)

ESA's comet-chasing mission Rosetta will wake up in 100 days' time from deep-space hibernation to reach the destination it has been cruising towards for a decad...

Telescopes Large and Small Team Up to Study Triple Asteroid 87 Sylvia

Oct 16, 2013 (SPX)

Combining observations from the world's largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of astronomers discovered that the large ma...

Comet ISON's chances of surviving close brush with the Sun

Oct 14, 2013 (SPX)

The much-anticipated close approach of comet ISON to the Sun this November may be spectacular as viewed from Earth, but it's unlikely to spell the end of the co...

Watery asteroid discovered in dying star points to habitable exoplanets

Oct 14, 2013 (SPX)

Astronomers have found the shattered remains of an asteroid that contained huge amounts of water orbiting an exhausted star, or white dwarf. This suggests that ...

Controllers prepare to awaken comet hunter from deep-space sleep

Oct 11, 2013 (UPI)

European space mission controllers say they're preparing to wake a comet-hunting spacecraft from a two-year deep-space hibernation as it nears its cosmic goal. ...

First ever evidence of a comet striking Earth

Oct 10, 2013 (SPX)

The first ever evidence of a comet entering Earth's atmosphere and exploding, raining down a shock wave of fire which obliterated every life form in its path, h...

First-ever comet material discovered on Earth: scientists

Oct 08, 2013 (AFP)

A comet exploded over modern-day Egypt 28 million years ago, raining down fire and leaving behind a "mysterious" black pebble -- the first-ever comet material f...

First HiRISE Images of Comet ISON

Oct 07, 2013 (SPX)

On 29 September 2013, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) maneuvered to point its High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera at ISON, a new co...

Asteroid near-miss reported by Russian scientists

Oct 07, 2013 (Voice of Russia)

A 15-meter asteroid, similar to the object that exploded above Russia in February, moving at a speed of 16km per second, was detected hours before it narrowly m...

Dawn Marks Six Years In Space

Sep 30, 2013 (JPL)

On the sixth anniversary of leaving Earth to embark on a daring deep-space expedition, Dawn is very, very far from its erstwhile planetary residence. Now humank...

Dawn Reality-Checks Telescope Studies of Asteroids

Sep 30, 2013 (JPL)

Tantalized by images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based data, scientists thought the giant asteroid Vesta deserved a closer look. They got a ch...

Amateur Astronomers See Comet ISON

Sep 25, 2013 (SPX)

Anticipation is building as Comet ISON approaches the sun for a close encounter on Thanksgiving Day (Nov. 28). No one knows if the blast of solar heating ISON r...

NASA Highlights Asteroid Grand Challenge at World Maker Faire

Sep 18, 2013 (SPX)

NASA is reaching out to a new community for ideas on how to find and track potentially hazardous asteroids, and protect the planet from their impacts. The World...

Take a Virtual, High-Resolution Tour of Vesta

Sep 17, 2013 (SPX)

An atlas of the asteroid, Vesta, created from images taken during the Dawn Mission's Low Altitude Mapping Orbit (LAMO), is now accessible for the public to expl...

Team Attempts To Restore Communications With Deep Impact

Sep 13, 2013 (JPL)

Ground controllers have been unable to communicate with NASA's long-lived Deep Impact spacecraft. Last communication with the spacecraft was on Aug. 8, 2013. De...

University of Tennessee professor helps to discover near-Earth asteroid is really a comet

Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)

Some things are not always what they seem-even in space. For 30 years, scientists believed a large near-Earth object was an asteroid. Now, an international team...

NAU-led team discovers comet hiding in plain sight

Sep 13, 2013 (SPX)

For 30 years, a large near-Earth asteroid wandered its lone, intrepid path, passing before the scrutinizing eyes of scientists while keeping something to itself...