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NASA asteroid sampling mission renamed OSIRIS-APEX for new journey
Dec 27, 2023 (SPX)
At the end of a long-haul road trip, it might be time to kick up your feet and rest awhile - especially if it was a seven-year, 4 billion-mile journey to bring ...
Hera's wings of power
Dec 26, 2023 (ESA)
The van-sized spacecraft is equipped with two 5-m long wings, made up of three hinged panels each. This adds up to an overall area of approximately 14 square me...
Nuclear deflection simulations advance planetary defense against asteroid threats
Dec 21, 2023 (SPX)
The research, published in the Planetary Science Journal, introduces a novel approach to simulating the energy deposition from a nuclear device on an asteroid's...
Diamond Light Source Prepares for In-Depth Analysis of Bennu Samples
Dec 18, 2023 (SPX)
The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) mission, a NASA-led endeavor launched in 2016, successful...
Study on Asteroid Ryugu samples highlights differences from primitive meteorites
Dec 12, 2023 (SPX)
Asteroids like Ryugu, remnants of planetary embryos that did not develop into larger bodies, serve as invaluable sources for studying materials from the early s...
A Great Year for the Geminids
Dec 08, 2023 (SPX)
On Wednesday night, December 13th, and continuing into the early hours of Thursday, December 14th, be sure to head outside and look up - you may very well see b...
HyperScout H Readies for ESA's Hera Mission
Dec 07, 2023 (SPX)
The HyperScout H imager has successfully completed its environmental testing at payload level, ensuring its reliability and functionality in the harsh condition...
Asteroid Impact Crater in Germany Offers New Perspectives on Martian Analogs
Dec 06, 2023 (SPX)
Recent research, however, has cast new light on the limitations of crater lakes as climate archives. A team of international researchers, spearheaded by the Uni...
NASA's Psyche Delivers First Images and Other Data
Dec 06, 2023 (SPX)
Already 16 million miles (26 million kilometers) from Earth, the spacecraft will arrive at its destination - the asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid belt betwe...
CubeSats deployer flight model now integrated to Hera
Dec 06, 2023 (ESA)
Hera will demonstrate several new technologies such as visual-based asteroid close-proximity navigation and control, inter-satellite communication and a novel e...
More than a meteorite: New clues about the demise of dinosaurs
Dec 05, 2023 (SPX)
That's according to a study published in Science Advances, co-authored by Don Baker, a professor in McGill University's Department of Earth and Planetary Scienc...
Erasmus+ and COSPAR Collaborate to Bring Asteroid Studies into Classrooms
Dec 04, 2023 (SPX)
Over a period of 36 months, the StAnD program intends to introduce students to the intriguing realm of asteroids, comets, meteors, and meteorites. This initiati...
OSIRIS-APEX to fly closer to Sun to reach Asteroid Apophis
Dec 04, 2023 (SPX)
At its closest approach (known as its perihelion) on Jan. 2, 2024, OSIRIS-APEX will be about 46.5 million miles away from the Sun - roughly half the distance be...
Satellite discovered by NASA's Lucy mission gets name
Nov 30, 2023 (SPX)
"Dinkinesh is the Ethiopian name for the fossil nicknamed 'Lucy,'", says Raphael Marshall of the Observatoire de la Cote d'Azur in Nice, France, who originally ...
Evolving material, not rings, circling Centaur Chiron
Nov 30, 2023 (SPX)
"We observed a star passing behind the Centaur Chiron from the 1.9-m telescope in Sutherland. We detected dips in the starlight as it was blocked by Chiron's nu...
Finnish team of researchers found out the composition of asteroid Phaethon
Nov 29, 2023 (SPX)
However, the tails of comets are usually formed by vaporizing ice and carbon dioxide, which cannot explain this tail. The tail should be visible already at Jupi...
Hera asteroid mission hears the noise
Nov 13, 2023 (ESA)
Diego Escorial Olmos, Hera system engineer comments: "Launch will be the single most stressful day of Hera's life, so we have worked hard to simulate it during ...
Hayabusa2 Unveils New Clues on Solar System's Beginnings from Asteroid Samples
Nov 10, 2023 (SPX)
Ryugu, which meanders between Earth and Mars, is now confirmed to be akin to the Ivuna-type carbonaceous chondrites (CIs), meteorites that scientists prize for ...
SwRI-led Lucy observes first-ever contact binary orbiting an asteroid
Nov 08, 2023 (SPX)
In the first image of Dinkinesh and its satellite taken at closest approach, the two lobes of the contact binary lined up, one behind the other, appearing to be...
SwRI-led Lucy mission shows Dinkinesh asteroid is actually a binary
Nov 06, 2023 (SPX)
"Dinkinesh really did live up to its name; this is marvelous," said Lucy Principal Investigator Dr. Hal Levison, of SwRI's Solar System Science and Exploration ...
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