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Space mining startup set for launch in US
Apr 20, 2012 (AFP)
A startup evidently devoted to mining asteroids for metals is to make its public debut Tuesday in the US northwest city of Seattle, seeking to redefine the term...
Dawn Gets Extra Time to Explore Vesta
Apr 20, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Dawn mission has received official confirmation that 40 extra days have been added to its exploration of the giant asteroid Vesta, the second most massiv...
NASA Mission Wants Amateur Astronomers to Target Asteroids
Apr 20, 2012 (SPX)
A new NASA outreach project will enlist the help of amateur astronomers to discover near-Earth objects (NEOs) and study their characteristics. NEOs are asteroid...
NASA's Swift Monitors Departing Comet Garradd
Apr 18, 2012 (SPX)
An outbound comet that provided a nice show for skywatchers late last year is the target of an ongoing investigation by NASA's Swift satellite. Formally designa...
Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star
Apr 12, 2012 (ESA)
ESA's Herschel Space Observatory has studied the dusty belt around the nearby star Fomalhaut. The dust appears to be coming from collisions that destroy up to t...
Jupiter helps Halley's Comet give us more spectacular meteor displays
Apr 10, 2012 (SPX)
The dramatic appearance of Halley's comet in the night sky has been observed and recorded by astronomers since 240 BC. Now a study shows that the orbital influe...
Russia Wants To Bind Satellite To Apophis Asteroid
Apr 09, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
Russia plans to send a satellite with a radio beacon to near-Earth asteroid of 99942 Apophis for finding out how big is a threat of its collision with Earth, th...
Russia wants to puts satellite on asteroid
Apr 07, 2012 (UPI)
Russian scientists said Saturday they plan on binding a satellite with a radio beacon to an asteroid that will pass close to Earth. The purpose of the project i...
CODITA: measuring the cosmic dust swept up by the Earth
Apr 05, 2012 (SPX)
CODITA has received a EUR 2.5 million grant from the European Research Council to investigate the dust input over the next 5 years. The international team, led ...
Comet Wild2: First Evidence of Space Weathering
Apr 03, 2012 (SPX)
The traditional picture of comets as cold, icy, unchanging bodies throughout their history is being reappraised in the light of analyses of dust grains from Com...
Dawn Marks 205 Years Of Humans Watching Vesta
Apr 03, 2012 (JPL)
Vesta is spending the 205th anniversary of its discovery by treating Dawn to more spectacular vistas. When Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers first spotted Vesta,...
New NEO Website Tool Now Available
Mar 23, 2012 (JPL)
Observers, mission planners, and other interested users are invited to use a new website tool to view a list of near-Earth asteroids that are among the most acc...
Dawn Sees New Surface Features on Giant Asteroid
Mar 23, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Dawn spacecraft has revealed unexpected details on the surface of the giant asteroid Vesta. New images and data highlight the diversity of Vesta's surfac...
Near-miss asteroid will return next year
Mar 20, 2012 (ESA)
When it whizzes past Earth in 2013, a newly discovered asteroid is going to miss our planet - but not by much. The 50 m space rock is expected to come closer th...
Dear Ups and Dawns
Mar 07, 2012 (JPL)
Dawn is continuing its exploits at Vesta, performing detailed studies of the colossal asteroid from its low altitude mapping orbit (LAMO). The robotic ambassado...
Asteroid 2011 AG5 - A Reality Check
Mar 01, 2012 (JPL)
Asteroid 2011 AG5 has been receiving a lot of attention lately because of a very unlikely scenario which would place it on an Earth-interception course 28 years...
Scientists say big asteroid bears watching
Feb 27, 2012 (UPI)
Scientists at a United Nations meeting in Vienna say they're keeping a close eye on a large asteroid that may pose an impact threat to Earth in a few decades. T...
Mission to Land on a Comet
Feb 07, 2012 (SPX)
Europe's Rosetta spacecraft is en route to intercept a comet- and to make history. In 2014, Rosetta will enter orbit around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenkoand l...
Asteroids: The New 'It Mission' for Space Exploration
Feb 07, 2012 (SPX)
The Japanese are heading back into space on a second attempt to collect samples from a nearby asteroid. The asteroid selected, 1999 JU3 is a perfect specimen, s...
Project NEOShield: Asteroid defence systems
Feb 07, 2012 (SPX)
It is not entirely clear when exactly the last major asteroid impact on Earth occurred. But there are plenty of examples of impact craters, such as the Nordling...
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