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Only slight chance of asteroid Bennu hitting Earth: NASA

Aug 11, 2021 (AFP)

OSIRIS-REx, a NASA spacecraft, spent two years near Bennu, an asteroid that is about 1,650 feet (500 meters) wide, observing its size, shape, mass and compositi...

OSIRIS-REx helps scientists model the orbit of hazardous asteroid Bennu

Aug 11, 2021 (UPI)

By ysing positional data collected over the course of the two-year sample return mission, however, scientists were able to improve their knowledge of Bennu's tr...

Perfect for the Perseid Meteor Shower

Aug 10, 2021 (SPX)

Begin watching for meteors soon after evening twilight ends. By then the shower's radiant - its perspective point of origin in the constellation Perseus - has r...

Hi-res measurements of asteroid surface temperatures obtained from Earth

Aug 06, 2021 (SPX)

Psyche orbits the sun in the asteroid belt, a donut-shaped region of space between Earth and Jupiter that contains more than a million rocky bodies that range i...

Perseid meteor shower peaks Aug. 12, but the full Moon may spoil the show

Aug 05, 2021 (UPI)

The annual meteor shower will peak the next day, but this year the full moon may interfere with visibility, according to NASA. "Sadly, this year's Perseids peak...

Lucy boxed to go

Aug 03, 2021 (SPX)

The mission has a 23-day launch period beginning on October 16. Lucy will undergo final testing and fueling prior to being moved to its launch pad at Cape Canav...

SwRI team zeroes in on source of the impactor that wiped out the dinosaurs

Jul 30, 2021 (SPX)

Researchers from Southwest Research Institute have shown that the processes that deliver large asteroids to Earth from that region occur at least 10 times more ...

Western leads global project observing rare meteor showers and meteorite falls

Jul 28, 2021 (SPX)

Led by Western University's Denis Vida, the Global Meteor Network (GMN) is a collection of more than 450 video meteor cameras hosted by amateur astronomers and ...

Jul 28, 2021 (SPX)

These two asteroids have a steeper spectral slope than the D-type asteroids, which were thought to be the reddest objects in the asteroid belt. Rather, their sp...

Tail without a comet: the dusty remains of Comet ATLAS

Jul 20, 2021 (SPX)

Comet ATLAS fragmented just before its closest approach to the Sun last year, leaving its former tail trailing through space in the form of wispy clouds of dust...

The role of the COSPAR Panel on Planetary Protection

Jul 19, 2021 (SPX)

Category IIa concerns all missions to the surface of the Moon whose nominal mission profile does not access the areas defined in Category IIb below. For those m...

LCO discovers activity on largest comet ever found

Jul 15, 2021 (SPX)

C/2014 UN271 was found by reprocessing four years of data from the Dark Energy Survey, which was carried out using the 4-m Blanco telescope at Cerro Tololo Inte...

NASA Lucy mission's message to the future

Jul 14, 2021 (SPX)

As the first-ever mission to the Trojan asteroids, Lucy will survey this enigmatic population of small bodies that orbit the Sun beyond the main asteroid belt -...

Early Earth was bombarded by series of city-sized asteroids

Jul 12, 2021 (SPX)

This translates into a barrage of collisions, similar in scale to that of the asteroid strike which wiped out the dinosaurs, on average every 15 million years b...

Surface of asteroid Bennu soft like plastic ball pit, OSIRIS-REx spacecraft finds

Jul 08, 2021 (UPI)

After it analyzed data from the spacecraft, NASA said it would have sunk into the asteroid if it hadn't fired thrusters to lift off as soon as it collected the ...

Chinese Scientists Suggest Launching Dozens of Rockets to Prevent Asteroid Collision With Earth

Jul 08, 2021 (Sputnik)

In a newly published research, experts at China's National Space Science Center have proposed launching a fleet of rockets into space to simulate diverting an a...

Eye of ESA's asteroid mission

Jul 02, 2021 (ESA)

Hera - named after the Greek goddess of marriage - will be, along with NASA's Double Asteroid Redirect Test (DART) spacecraft, humankind's first probe to rendez...

Asteroid-hunting space telescope gets two-year mission extension

Jul 01, 2021 (SPX)

"At NASA, we're always looking up, surveying the sky daily to find potential hazards and exploring asteroids to help unlock the secrets of the formation of our ...

Abnormally high alcohol and mystery heat source detected on Comet Wirtanen

Jul 01, 2021 (SPX)

"46P/Wirtanen has one of the highest alcohol-to-aldehyde ratios measured in any comet to date," said Neil Dello Russo, a cometary scientist at Johns Hopkins Uni...

CubeSat will sift asteroid secrets from reflected sunshine

Jul 01, 2021 (ESA)

Hera will reach the Didymos system in 2027, to survey the aftermath of a collision by NASA's DART spacecraft with the smaller of the two asteroids, Dimorphos. H...