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Asteroid with a refreshed surface
Jan 10, 2022 (SPX)
Observations of the near-infrared spectra of the 114km diameter asteroid 596 Scheila that orbits within the asteroid belt revealed that the asteroid changed col...
Asteroid 'Apophis' predicted to skim dangerously close to Earth in 2029
Jan 04, 2022 (Sputnik)
Asteroid 99942 Apophis, estimated to measure 340 metres (1,100 ft) across and identified by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as one of t...
Quadrantid meteor shower offers good show outside of North America
Jan 03, 2022 (UPI)
The "Quads" as they are nicknamed, are slated to peak around 4 p.m. EDT (2100 GMT) on Monday, according to Margaret Campbell-Brown and Peter Brown in the 2022 v...
Quadrantids offer winter meteor spectacle
Jan 01, 2022 (SPX)
Meteors are the result of small particles entering the Earth's atmosphere at high speed, typically around 40 km per second for the Quadrantids. The pieces of de...
A Christmas comet for Solar Orbiter
Dec 27, 2021 (ESA)
The Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI) captured an animated sequence of images 17-19 December that shows comet Leonard streaking diagonally across the f...
DART returns first images from space
Dec 27, 2021 (JPL)
After the violent vibrations of launch and the extreme temperature shift to minus 80 degrees C in space, scientists and engineers at the mission operations cent...
NASA begins construction on asteroid-detecting space telescope
Dec 23, 2021 (UPI)
The NEO Surveyor passed a technical programmatic review and will now move into the construction phase. "The mission supports the objectives of NASA's Planetary ...
How NASA's Psyche Mission Will Explore an Unexplored World
Dec 21, 2021 (JPL)
The target of NASA's Psyche mission - a metal-rich asteroid, also called Psyche, in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter - is an uncharted world in outer spac...
Comets' heads can be green, but never their tails
Dec 21, 2021 (SPX)
These snowballs - or as we know them, comets - go through a colourful metamorphosis as they cross the sky, with many comets' heads turning a radiant green colou...
Watching the Blink of a Star to Size Up Asteroids for NASA's Lucy Mission
Dec 17, 2021 (SPX)
It was an event so miniscule it would have been easy to miss. Yet the data gathered in those few seconds will contribute to the success of NASA's Lucy mission, ...
DiCaprio and Lawrence big up science in doomsday comedy
Dec 17, 2021 (AFP)
In "Don't Look Up", released on December 24 on Netflix, they play two astronomers who discover a comet will wipe out life on Earth within six months, but then t...
Tiny meteors leave smoke in the atmosphere
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
What we can't see with the naked eye is the steady rain of much smaller meteoroids, often called cosmic dust, that bombards our atmosphere every day of the year...
Rock composition determines how deadly a meteorite impact is
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
The earth has been bombarded by meteorites throughout its long history. Meteorite impacts generate atmospheric dust and cover the Earth's surface with debris an...
NASA Goddard helps ensure asteroid deflector hits target
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
If an asteroid were discovered and determined to be on a collision course with Earth, one response could be to launch a "kinetic impactor" - a high-velocity spa...
NASA's 'Eyes on Asteroids' Reveals Our Near-Earth Object Neighborhood
Dec 10, 2021 (JPL)
Thousands of asteroids and dozens of comets are discovered every single year, some of which - called near-Earth objects (NEOs) - follow orbits that pass through...
Dinosaurs' last spring: Study pinpoints timing of Chicxulub asteroid impact
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
Results of the study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, greatly enhances the ability to trace the first stages of damage to life on Earth. FAU's Robe...
Comet Leonard soon visible to naked eye?
Dec 09, 2021 (ESA)
Get out of the city if you're in one, look up, and you're likely to see sporadic 'shooting stars' ripping with speed through the atmosphere. Less common, but no...
NASA receives special cosmic delivery of asteroid sample from Japan
Dec 08, 2021 (SPX)
Now, scientists in the Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES) Division at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston are among those able to study s...
NASA's next-generation asteroid impact monitoring system goes online
Dec 06, 2021 (JPL)
To date, nearly 28,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) have been found by survey telescopes that continually scan the night sky, adding new discoveries at a rate of...
New study shows the largest comet ever observed was active at near-record distance
Dec 01, 2021 (SPX)
The finding will help astronomers determine what BB is made of and provide insight into conditions during the formation of our solar system. The finding was pub...
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