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NASA Sees Enthusiastic Response to Asteroid Call for Ideas
Jul 30, 2013 (SPX)
NASA has received more than 400 responses to its request for information (RFI) on the agency's asteroid initiative, Deputy Administrator Lori Garver announced F...
NASA's Wise Finds Mysterious Centaurs May Be Comets
Jul 26, 2013 (JPL)
The true identity of centaurs, the small celestial bodies orbiting the sun between Jupiter and Neptune, is one of the enduring mysteries of astrophysics. Are th...
Spitzer Observes Gas Emission From Comet ISON
Jul 26, 2013 (SPX)
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have observed what most likely are strong carbon dioxide emissions from Comet ISON ahead of its anticipated pas...
NASA's Hubble: Galaxies, Comets, and Stars! Oh My!
Jul 26, 2013 (SPX)
Approaching the sun, Comet ISON floats against a seemingly infinite backdrop of numerous galaxies and a handful of foreground stars. The icy visitor, with its l...
NASA's Mars orbiters to witness comet flyby
Jul 25, 2013 (UPI)
Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring won't whiz by Mars for another two-plus months, but NASA is already preparing its Mars orbiters for the flyby. Currently, NASA has...
Gas, dust observed streaming from 'soda-pop' comet approaching Earth
Jul 24, 2013 (UPI)
NASA says a space telescope spotted what are likely strong carbon dioxide emissions from a comet that will pass through the inner solar system this year. Images...
NASA Comet ISON Observing Campaign
Jul 23, 2013 (JPL)
In 1680, Kirch's comet lit up the nighttime skies, and was even briefly visible in broad daylight. With a remarkably similar orbit to that of Comet ISON, can we...
Target Asteroid 2002 GT Tracked by European Teams
Jul 23, 2013 (ESA)
In a recent close-ish flyby, asteroid 2002 GT was studied in detail for the first time by a network of European astronomers. The observations were coordinated b...
Researcher Seeks New Way to Study Asteroid and Comet Interiors
Jul 22, 2013 (SPX)
Thomas H. Prettyman, Senior Scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, has been awarded funding from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program to ...
House vote shoots down plans for manned asteroid mission
Jul 19, 2013 (UPI)
A U.S. House committee has rejected funding for a manned mission to an asteroid, the centerpiece of President Barack Obama's human space exploration proposal. T...
Space Systems/Loral conducting technology studies for NASA
Jul 18, 2013 (UPI)
Space Systems/Loral reports it has been chosen by NASA to study system concepts and technologies for the NASA Asteroid Redirect Mission. The value of the contra...
Senate Dems favor allowing NASA to go ahead with asteroid capture plan
Jul 18, 2013 (UPI)
U.S. Senate Democrats say a new bill would allow NASA to go ahead with its plan to lasso an asteroid as part of a future mission to send astronauts to Mars. The...
A Timeline Of Comet ISON's Dangerous Journey
Jul 18, 2013 (SPX)
A comet's journey through the solar system is perilous and violent. A giant ejection of solar material from the sun could rip its tail off. Before it reaches Ma...
Twin comets discovered by ESA space probe Rosetta
Jul 17, 2013 (UPI)
The European Space Agency's Rosetta probe has been gearing up to attempt a comet landing. Recently, the craft discovered something surprising about its intended...
Vesta Topography Map
Jul 17, 2013 (JPL)
This color-coded topography map from NASA's Dawn mission shows the giant asteroid Vesta in an equirectangular projection at 32 pixels per degree, relative to an...
First Mission of Space Launch System with Orion Atop it to Preview Asteroid Visit
Jul 11, 2013 (SPX)
Managers in NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate have initiated a formal request to change the mission plan for the agency's first flight...
Comet ISON Brings Holiday Fireworks
Jul 03, 2013 (SPX)
Its swift motion is captured in this time-lapse movie made from a sequence of pictures taken May 8, 2013, by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. At the time the imag...
Ten Thousandth Near-Earth Object Unearthed in Space
Jun 26, 2013 (JPL)
More than 10,000 asteroids and comets that can pass near Earth have now been discovered. The 10,000th near-Earth object, asteroid 2013 MZ5, was first detected o...
NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge
Jun 19, 2013 (SPX)
NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. The challenge, which wa...
NASA enlists public in hunt for major asteroids
Jun 18, 2013 (AFP)
NASA announced a Grand Challenge on Tuesday to enlist government agencies, industry, academics and citizen astronomers in the hunt for asteroids that could caus...
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