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ARCA Space launches the AMiE crypto coin
Oct 20, 2022 (SPX)
The Asteroid Mining Program (AMi) is a ten-year program that aims to unlock one of the largest sources of wealth in history, through profitable asteroid mining....
Arecibo Observatory-led Team discovers large near-earth asteroid has changing rotation
Oct 20, 2022 (SPX)
Phaethon is just the 11th asteroid with a measured change in its rotation period, and it is the largest of them. The discovery is an example of progress in glob...
Method for decoding asteroid interiors could help aim asteroid-deflecting missions
Oct 19, 2022 (SPX)
Now MIT researchers have a tool that may improve the aim of future asteroid-targeting missions. The team has developed a method to map an asteroid's interior st...
How scientist monitored and early warned potential hazardous near-earth asteroids
Oct 19, 2022 (SPX)
Xiangyu Li, from School of Aerospace Engineering, Beijing Institute of Technology, proposed a novel concept of surveillance constellation of heterogeneous wide-...
NASA's Lucy spacecraft prepares to swing by Earth
Oct 17, 2022 (SPX)
The Trojan asteroids are trapped in orbits around the Sun at the same distance as Jupiter, either far ahead of or behind the giant planet. Lucy is currently one...
NASA's Lucy to fly past thousands of objects for Earth gravity assist
Oct 17, 2022 (SPX)
But they also will be closely tracking something else: more than 47,000 satellites, debris, and other objects circling our planet. A greater than 1-10,000 chanc...
Asteroid sample return mission on track for Fall '23 Delivery
Oct 17, 2022 (SPX)
The delivery itself, however, is not a simple parcel drop on Earth's front doorstep: NASA's OSIRIS-REx - formally the Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource I...
First kinetic impact test succeeds in shifting asteroid orbit
Oct 13, 2022 (ESA)
As a next step ESA's Hera mission will return to the double asteroid system to investigate the consequences of the impact, gathering close-up data to turn this ...
Thirty thousands near-Earth asteroids discovered and rising
Oct 13, 2022 (ESA)
An asteroid is called a near-Earth asteroid (NEA) when its trajectory brings it within 1.3 Astronomical Units (au) of the Sun. 1 au is the distance between the ...
NASA confirms DART impact changed asteroid's motion in space
Oct 13, 2022 (SPX)
"All of us have a responsibility to protect our home planet. After all, it's the only one we have," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson. "This mission shows tha...
NASA kicked asteroid off course in test to save Earth
Oct 11, 2022 (AFP)
The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, pushing it into a sm...
NASA spaceship deflected asteroid in test to save Earth
Oct 11, 2022 (AFP)
The fridge-sized Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) impactor deliberately smashed into the moonlet asteroid Dimorphos on September 26, pushing it into a sm...
Impact that killed the dinosaurs triggered mega-earthquake that lasted weeks to months
Oct 07, 2022 (SPX)
Hermann Bermudez will present evidence of this "mega-earthquake" at the upcoming GSA Connects meeting in Denver this Sunday, 9 October. Earlier this year, with ...
End-Cretaceous asteroid caused massive global tsunami, peaking at a mile high
Oct 06, 2022 (SPX)
The study, published in AGU Advances, presents the first global simulation of the Chicxulub impact tsunami to be published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal...
Potential source of 'shock-darkened' meteorites has implications for asteroid deflection
Oct 05, 2022 (SPX)
In a new paper published in the Planetary Science Journal, University of Arizona scientists identified an asteroid named 1998 OR2 as one potential source of sho...
SOAR Telescope catches Dimorphos's expanding comet-like tail after DART impact
Oct 05, 2022 (SPX)
Two days after DART's impact, astronomers Teddy Kareta (Lowell Observatory) and Matthew Knight (US Naval Academy) used the 4.1-meter Southern Astrophysical Rese...
Webb and Hubble capture detailed views of DART Impact - EMBARGO CEST 1500
Sep 29, 2022 (ESA)
On 26 September 2022 at 13:14 CEST, DART intentionally crashed into Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet in the double-asteroid system of Didymos. It was the world's...
New asteroid strike images show impact 'a lot bigger than expected'
Sep 29, 2022 (AFP)
The world's telescopes turned their gaze towards the space rock Dimorphos earlier this week for a historic test of Earth's ability to defend itself against a po...
Webb and Hubble capture detailed views of DART impact
Sep 29, 2022 (ESA)
On 26 September 2022 at 13:14 CEST, DART intentionally crashed into Dimorphos, the asteroid moonlet in the double-asteroid system of Didymos. It was the world's...
Astronomers hail first images of asteroid impact
Sep 28, 2022 (AFP)
Astronomers have hailed this early footage of the first time humanity deliberately smashed a spacecraft into an asteroid, saying it looks like it did a "lot of ...
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