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Commercial Asteroid Hunters Announce Plans For New Robotic Exploration Fleet
Jan 25, 2013 (SPX)
A NewSpace start up Deep Space Industries claims it will send a fleet of asteroid-prospecting spacecraft out into the solar system to hunt for resources to acce...
US company aims to 'harvest' asteroids
Jan 22, 2013 (AFP)
A US company said Tuesday it plans to send a fleet of spacecraft into the solar system to mine asteroids for metals and other materials in the hopes of furtheri...
Comet of the Century?
Jan 21, 2013 (SPX)
Out near the orbit of Jupiter, a faint speck of light is moving through the black of space. At first glance it doesn't look like much, no brighter than a thousa...
Russian astronomers discover new huge comet
Jan 14, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Last year, Russian astronomers Vitaly Nevsky and Artyom Novichonok discovered a new gigantic comet that is currently approaching Earth. The ISON comet, which is...
Herschel intercepts asteroid Apophis
Jan 10, 2013 (ESA)
ESA's Herschel space observatory made new observations of asteroid Apophis as it approached Earth this weekend. The data shows the asteroid to be bigger than fi...
Rogue asteroid a fifth bigger than thought: space agency
Jan 09, 2013 (AFP)
An asteroid believed to pose a remote risk of colliding with Earth this century is 20 percent bigger than previously thought, the European Space Agency (ESA) sa...
Asteroid Impact Delivered Carbon To Giant Asteroid Vesta
Jan 09, 2013 (SPX)
Dark material seen on the giant asteroid Vesta by instruments on NASA's Dawn spacecraft was likely emplaced by the low-speed impact of a carbon-based asteroid, ...
Celestial flybys set to thrill
Jan 07, 2013 (AFP)
Astronomers are gearing for thrills this year when Earth gets buzzed by two rogue asteroids and two comets, including a wanderer last seen by the forerunners of...
U.S. undergraduates impress astronomers with asteroid discovery
Jan 07, 2013 (UPI)
University of Maryland undergraduates have impressed professional astronomers by finding a rare pair of asteroids that orbit and regularly eclipse one another. ...
Vesta's Dark Materials in Dawn's View
Jan 04, 2013 (JPL)
A new study of images from NASA's Dawn mission examines remarkable, dark-as-coal material that speckles the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. Scientists are ...
Vesta: Giant impacts delivered carbon
Jan 04, 2013 (SPX)
The protoplanet Vesta has been witness to an eventful past: images taken by the framing camera onboard NASA's space probe Dawn show two enormous craters in the ...
Dawn races into 2013 on target for Ceres
Jan 04, 2013 (JPL)
Dawn concludes 2012 almost 13,000 times farther from Vesta than it began the year. At that time, it was in its lowest orbit, circling the alien world at an aver...
Comet heads our way for celestial show in 2013
Jan 01, 2013 (UPI)
A newly discovered comet could be the celestial spectacle of a century and light up the skies as bright as a full moon in 2013, its Russian discoverers say. Ama...
Comet heads our way for celestial show
Dec 31, 2012 (UPI)
A newly discovered comet could be the celestial spectacle of a century and light up the skies as bright as a full moon in 2013, its Russian discoverers say. Ama...
All-Clear Asteroid Will Miss Earth in 2040
Dec 24, 2012 (SPX)
Using the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawai'i a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy (IfA) have confirmed that t...
China Makes First Asteroid Fly By
Dec 17, 2012 (XNA)
China's space probe Chang'e-2 has successfully conducted a maneuver in which it flew by the asteroid Toutatis, about seven million km away from the Earth. Trave...
Asteroid Toutatis Slowly Tumbles by Earth
Dec 17, 2012 (JPL)
Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., have generated a series of radar data images of a three...
Big Asteroid Tumbles Harmlessly Past Earth
Dec 13, 2012 (SPX)
This week, NASA's Goldstone radar is tracking a large asteroid as it passes by Earth, and obtaining images of unprecedented clarity. "At closest approach on Dec...
Student Team Provides Real-Time Video of Asteroid Toutatis
Dec 13, 2012 (SPX)
An asteroid that some day might threaten Earth is passing relatively close by on the night of December 11-12, and its gliding path among the stars will be track...
What is Creating Gullies on Vesta?
Dec 10, 2012 (JPL)
In a preliminary analysis of images from NASA's Dawn mission, scientists have spotted intriguing gullies that sculpt the walls of geologically young craters on ...
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