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First results from ESO telescopes on the aftermath of DART's asteroid impact
Mar 23, 2023 (SPX)
On 26 September 2022 the DART spacecraft collided with the asteroid Dimorphos in a controlled test of our asteroid deflection capabilities. The impact took plac...
'No need to worry': Odds drop newly-found asteroid will hit Earth
Mar 14, 2023 (AFP)
The asteroid, which is named 2023 DW and is estimated to be around the size of a 50-metre Olympic swimming pool, was first spotted by a small Chilean observator...
High-fidelity simulation offers insight into 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor
Mar 13, 2023 (SPX)
A decade later, scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Planetary Defense program are releasing details of their research of the airbu...
The planet that could end life on Earth
Mar 08, 2023 (SPX)
UCR astrophysicist Stephen Kane explained that his experiment was meant to address two notable gaps in planetary science. The first is the gap in our solar syst...
Hubble captures movie of DART asteroid impact debris
Mar 06, 2023 (SPX)
Hubble's resulting time-lapse movie of the aftermath of the collision reveals surprising and remarkable changes as dust and chunks of debris were flung into spa...
What we learned from the asteroid-smashing DART mission
Mar 06, 2023 (SPX)
The spacecraft was the key part of DART, NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test, which aimed to redirect the paths of Dimorphos and Didymos - two small, nearby...
New insights from an ancient asteroid
Mar 01, 2023 (SPX)
The Ryugu samples offered a unique opportunity for scientists to study material freshly gathered from an asteroid that was around 15,000,000 kilometers from Ear...
Ryugu Asteroid sample reveals organic-rich composition, first analysis shows
Feb 24, 2023 (SPX)
Organic molecules are the building blocks of all known forms of terrestrial life and consist of a wide variety of compounds made of carbon combined with hydroge...
Water rich asteroids came from far outside the asteroid belt
Feb 23, 2023 (SPX)
These asteroids are rich in water - similar to the dwarf planet Ceres, which is also located in this region of the Solar System. "Our computational models show ...
Meteorite crater discovered in French winery
Feb 23, 2023 (SPX)
Meteorite craters which are still visible today are rare because most traces of the celestial bodies have long since disappeared again. This is due to erosion a...
Planetary radar captures detailed view of oblong asteroid
Feb 20, 2023 (JPL)
This close approach provided the first opportunity to take a detailed look at the asteroid since it was discovered in 2011, revealing an object about 1,600 feet...
Finding risky asteroids outshone by Sun
Feb 20, 2023 (ESA)
The relatively small rock approached Earth from very near the direction of the Sun, exploding in the atmosphere and creating a shockwave that damaged thousands ...
Fragment of meteorite that exploded over the English Channel recovered in France
Feb 20, 2023 (SPX)
On February 15, a fragment of 2023 CXI was found by members of the French search group Fripon/Vigie-Ciel in a field in the town of Saint-Pierre-le-Viger, France...
Chelyabinsk a decade on: spotting invisible asteroids 'from the Sun'?
Feb 16, 2023 (ESA)
The relatively small rock exploded in the atmosphere at an altitude of 30 km, releasing about half a megaton of energy (equivalent to 35 Hiroshima-sized bombs)....
Seventh shooting star ever spotted before strike
Feb 14, 2023 (ESA)
The last three predicted impacts have all occurred in the last 12 months- an encouraging illustration of how asteroid detection capabilities are rapidly advanci...
Earth's atmosphere adds a quick pinch of salt to meteorites, scientists find
Feb 14, 2023 (SPX)
The meteorite, which landed in Gloucestershire in February last year, was the first to be recovered on UK soil in nearly 30 years. Fragments were recovered from...
Lucy's asteroid target now called Dinkinesh
Feb 13, 2023 (SPX)
In 1999, when the asteroid Dinkinesh was first discovered, it was given the provisional designation 1999 VD57. It earned an official number, (152830), several y...
Sound test of Hera asteroid mission antenna
Feb 10, 2023 (SPX)
Hera is Europe's contribution to an international planetary defence experiment. Following the NASA DART mission's impact with the Dimorphos asteroid last year -...
Asteroid impact in slow motion
Feb 08, 2023 (SPX)
"For more than 60 years, these lamellar structures have served as an indicator of an asteroid impact, but no one knew until now how this structure was formed in...
Webb detects extremely small main-belt asteroid
Feb 07, 2023 (ESA)
The Solar System is teeming with asteroids and small rocky bodies - astronomers currently know of more than 1.1 million of these rocky remnants of the early day...
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