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Japan space agency hails return of asteroid dust on Earth
Dec 06, 2020 (AFP)
In a streak of light across the night sky, a capsule containing the precious specimens taken from a distant asteroid arrived on Earth after being dropped off by...
Asteroid dust collected by Japan probe arrives on Earth
Dec 05, 2020 (AFP)
Scientists hope the precious samples, which are expected to amount to no more than 0.1 grams of material, could help shed light on the origin of life and the fo...
Special delivery: Japan space probe to bring asteroid dust to Earth
Dec 04, 2020 (AFP)
The fridge-sized probe, launched in December 2014, has already thrilled scientists by landing on and gathering material from an asteroid some 300 million kilome...
Chaotic early solar system collisions resembled 'asteroids' arcade game
Dec 03, 2020 (SPX)
Nearly 30 years later, a new analysis of that same Peekskill meteorite and 17 others by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin and the University of T...
Lab developing device to help Earth dodge asteroids
Dec 02, 2020 (AFP)
The high-precision timers being built by hand in the lab of Latvian start-up Eventech are currently being used to track satellites. This year, the company won a...
Comet 2019 LD2 (ATLAS) found to be actively transitioning
Nov 30, 2020 (SPX)
"The newly discovered comet 2019 LD2 (ATLAS) is a Centaur, but is actively transitioning into a JFC. It is in the very earliest parts of this transition, and is...
Researchers discovered solid phosphorus from a comet
Nov 30, 2020 (SPX)
Researchers have discovered phosphorus and fluorine in solid dust particles collected from the inner coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It takes the comet...
Western student first to spot asteroid speeding past Earth
Nov 26, 2020 (SPX)
Studying at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gregg is one of a number of astronomers with remote access to a telescope based in Nerpio, Spain at an observator...
Scientists claim controversial results of comets observations are consistent
Nov 26, 2020 (SPX)
The activity of comets is more complex than it appeared to be, one of the research outcomes says. The chemical composition of a cometary coma (gas-dusty environ...
CSIRO research vessel Investigator films meteor break up over ocean
Nov 20, 2020 (SPX)
The meteor, which was bright green, was spotted by the bridge crew and reported to the science staff on board. They were amazed to find that the meteor had been...
SwRI scientists expand space instrument's capabilities
Nov 18, 2020 (SPX)
CODEX now uses two different dating approaches based on rubidium-strontium and lead-lead geochronology methods. The instrument uses laser ablation resonance ion...
DESTINY+ as Germany and Japan begin new asteroid mission
Nov 13, 2020 (SPX)
The German DESTINY+ Dust Analyzer (DDA) instrument on board the Japanese spacecraft will examine cosmic dust during the entire cruise phase to Phaethon, with du...
Weighing space dust with radar
Nov 12, 2020 (SPX)
Two ways to study faint meteors are radar and optical observations, each with advantages and limitations. Astronomers have combined specific observations with b...
SwRI scientist studies tiny craters on Bennu boulders to understand asteroid's age
Nov 11, 2020 (SPX)
While the collected sample will yield enormous scientific value when it is returned to Earth in 2023, a key job for scientists during the time in orbit at Bennu...
The craters on Earth
Nov 04, 2020 (SPX)
The authors present the more than 200 terrestrial impact sites in high-resolution topographic maps and satellite images, complete with detailed geological descr...
First scientific instrument installed on Lucy
Nov 03, 2020 (SPX)
The Lucy LOng Range Reconnaissance Imager (L'LORRI) traveled from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Maryland, where it was built an...
Asteroid's scars tell stories of its past
Nov 02, 2020 (SPX)
The study, published in the journal Nature, provides a new benchmark for understanding the evolution of asteroids, offers insights into a poorly understood popu...
A subterranean ecosystem in the Chicxulub Crater
Nov 02, 2020 (SPX)
The Chicxulub impact crater, roughly 180 kilometers in diameter, is the best-preserved large impact structure on Earth. It is also the best example of the types...
Ancient ice on Comet 67P 'fluffier than cappuccino froth'
Oct 30, 2020 (SPX)
This landing was monitored from the German Aerospace Center Philae Control Center. Philae left traces behind; the lander pressed its top side and the housing of...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx stows sample of Asteroid Bennu for return trip
Oct 30, 2020 (SPX)
"This achievement by OSIRIS-REx on behalf of NASA and the world has lifted our vision to the higher things we can achieve together, as teams and nations," said ...
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