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Polymers in meteorites provide clues to early solar system
Jun 30, 2021 (SPX)
For this reason, researchers have examined individual amino acids in meteorites, which come in a rich variety and many of which are not in present-day organisms...
Researchers aim to move an asteroid
Jun 28, 2021 (SPX)
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons from the Astrophysics Research Centre at Queen's is playing a role in two space missions that will measure how hard it is to deflect ...
Solar System samples touch down in Leicester
Jun 25, 2021 (SPX)
Some of the first particles from asteroid Ryugu - returned by Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) probe Hayabusa2 in 2020 - and samples from the Winchcomb...
Comet strike may have sparked key shift in human civilization
Jun 25, 2021 (SPX)
Possibly the most devastating cosmic impact since the extinction of the dinosaurs, it appears to coincide with major shifts in how human societies organised the...
NASA approves further development of asteroid hunter
Jun 14, 2021 (SPX)
The infrared space telescope is designed to help advance NASA's planetary defense efforts by expediting our ability to discover and characterize most of the pot...
Asteroid 16 Psyche might not be what scientists expected
Jun 10, 2021 (SPX)
Scientists are interested in 16 Psyche because if its presumed origins are true, it would provide an opportunity to study an exposed planetary core up close. NA...
Earth's meteorite impacts over past 500 million years tracked
Jun 09, 2021 (SPX)
Researchers have been studying geological series since the 19th century in order to reconstruct how flora, fauna and the climate have changed over millions of y...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx celebrates perfect departure maneuver from Asteroid Bennu
Jun 04, 2021 (SPX)
Mission engineers had planned to do a small thruster firing last week to ensure the spacecraft stays on the correct path back to Earth. But, the May 10 departur...
The Incredible Adventures of the Hera mission - Presenting Hera
Jun 02, 2021 (ESA)
Planetary defence requires planetary cooperation. Hera is set to rendezvous with the asteroid pair in 2026, by which time NASA's DART spacecraft will have alrea...
Research sheds light on origins, age of massive impact crater
Jun 02, 2021 (SPX)
Now, Western planetary scientist Elizabeth Silber has published new research suggesting the crater could be young - as craters go - having formed during the Ple...
Rare 4000-year comets can cause meteor showers on Earth
May 21, 2021 (SPX)
From a new meteor shower survey published in the journal Icarus, researchers now report that they can detect showers from the debris in the path of comets that ...
Nickel atoms detected in the cold gas around interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
May 20, 2021 (SPX)
Interstellar comets and asteroids are precious to science because, unlike millions of minor bodies that formed in our Solar System, they originate from distant ...
Heavy metal vapors unexpectedly found in comets throughout our Solar System
May 20, 2021 (SPX)
"It was a big surprise to detect iron and nickel atoms in the atmosphere of all the comets we have observed in the last two decades, about 20 of them, and even ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Heads for Earth with Asteroid Sample
May 11, 2021 (SPX)
On Monday, May 10, at 4:23 p.m. EDT the spacecraft fired its main engines full throttle for seven minutes - its most significant maneuver since it arrived at Be...
US space probe Osiris-Rex heads home with asteroid dust
May 10, 2021 (AFP)
The probe still has a vast distance to cover before it lands in the Utah desert on September 24, 2023. Osiris-Rex is "now moving away over 600 miles an hour fro...
Lessons learnt from simulated strike
May 01, 2021 (ESA)
Asteroid impact: the only natural disaster we might prevent Natural hazards come in a range of forms and occur with varying frequency. Some are relatively frequ...
New View of Asteroid Ryugu's Surface
Apr 29, 2021 (SPX)
In December 2020, the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa2 completed a daring 6-year mission, successfully landing on near-Earth asteroid Ryugu and returning a sample ...
Booming fireball spotted in the skies above 3 states this week, NASA says
Apr 29, 2021 (UPI)
The startling fireball was spotted on Wednesday morning by people in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. NASA says the streaking object was a "boldie" -- or a ...
New ESA telescope in South America to search for asteroids
Apr 28, 2021 (ESA)
"The project is a 'test-bed' to demonstrate the capabilities needed to efficiently detect and perform follow-up observations of near-Earth objects," says Clemen...
Robotic spacecraft will fly to asteroid, comet
Apr 27, 2021 (XNA)
Ye Peijian, a leading spacecraft researcher at the China Academy of Space Technology, said Chinese researchers have chosen 2016 HO3, the smallest and closest "q...
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