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'Spot the difference' to help reveal Rosetta image secrets
May 06, 2022 (ESA)
Rosetta spent over two years orbiting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko between 2014 and 2016. The spacecraft studied the comet up close, collecting unprecedented...
Meteor showers to bookend overnight skywatching opportunities in May
May 04, 2022 (SPX)
"Meteors aren't uncommon," Bill Cooke said, who leads NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. "Earth ...
Planetary geologist joins extended OSIRIS-REx mission to visit another asteroid
Apr 29, 2022 (SPX)
OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer) originally launched in 2016 and was the first NASA mission to...
China developing defense against near-Earth asteroids
Apr 26, 2022 (XNA)
Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the China National Space Administration, said on Friday that China has started forming a research and development system for defen...
Future of Earth's defense is ground-based planetary radar
Apr 26, 2022 (SPX)
The survey's report, published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, recounts the dangerous effects of impacts from Near Earth Objec...
China mulls building defense system against near-Earth asteroids
Apr 26, 2022 (XNA)
Wu Yanhua, deputy director of the China National Space Administration (CNSA), told China's CCTV News recently that China will start to build an Earth-based and ...
Western's all-sky cameras capture bright fireball event
Apr 22, 2022 (SPX)
Western University's physics and astronomy department runs an all-sky camera network that constantly monitors the sky for meteors. Denis Vida, who specializes i...
A water-rich world in the inner solar system-that isn't Earth
Apr 13, 2022 (SPX)
In Ceres: An Ice-Rich World in the Inner Solar System, Drs. Li and Castillo-Rogez provide a thorough review of the current state of knowledge about Ceres after ...
Hubble confirms largest comet nucleus ever seen
Apr 13, 2022 (SPX)
The behemoth comet, C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) is barreling this way at 22,000 miles per hour from the edge of the solar system. But not to worry. I...
Checking in on the Cameras of NASA's Asteroids-Bound Lucy Spacecraft
Apr 13, 2022 (SPX)
The first test images were taken in November 2021, shortly after Lucy's Oct. 16, 2021, launch, but the February test was much more extensive. Lucy used its Inst...
New home for Earth's protectors
Apr 12, 2022 (ESA)
ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher inaugurated the Centre today at the Agency's ESOC mission control centre, in Darmstadt, Germany. Living close to an active...
US Space Force releases decades of Bolide Data to NASA for Planetary Defense Studies
Apr 08, 2022 (JPL)
The newly released data is composed of information on the changing brightness of bolides as they pass through Earth's atmosphere, called light curves, that coul...
Shake and Bake as NASA's Psyche tested in spacelike conditions
Apr 05, 2022 (JPL)
The conditions that a NASA spacecraft endures are extreme: the violent shaking and cacophony of a rocket launch, the jolt of separating from the launch vehicle,...
Studying impact craters to uncover the secrets of the solar system
Mar 31, 2022 (SPX)
Brandon Johnson studies the latter, using information about impacts to understand the history and the composition of planets, moons, asteroids and meteorites th...
Ryugu be a remnant of an extinct comet
Mar 23, 2022 (SPX)
The successor to this mission, called Hayabusa2, was completed near the end of 2020, bringing back material from Asteroid 162173 "Ryugu," along with a collectio...
Characteristics of Apophis, the asteroid that will approach Earth in 2029
Mar 23, 2022 (SPX)
The Apophis asteroid was discovered in 2004 and has been monitored since then due to its classification as a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA), as it was est...
Fifth asteroid ever discovered before impact
Mar 17, 2022 (ESA)
The results were quickly published and used by automatic impact assessment systems around the world to estimate the possibility of an impact: at the time, it se...
NASA System Predicts Impact of Small Asteroid
Mar 16, 2022 (JPL)
A small asteroid hit Earth's atmosphere over the Norwegian Sea before disintegrating on March 11, 2022. But this event wasn't a complete surprise: Astronomers k...
Comet 67P's abundant oxygen more of an illusion, new study suggests
Mar 15, 2022 (SPX)
A new analysis, however, led by planetary scientist Adrienn Luspay-Kuti at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, shows Rosetta...
Backbone of Hera asteroid mission
Mar 11, 2022 (ESA)
NASA's DART spacecraft is currently on its way to the Didymos asteroid pair in deep space, to test the kinetic impact technique of asteroid deflection on the sm...
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