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Interstellar comet Borisov reveals its chemistry and possible origins

Apr 21, 2020 (SPX)

Now, thanks to observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA...

Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov Rich in Carbon Monoxide

Apr 21, 2020 (SPX)

"The biggest news is probably the first measurement of the CO composition in a sample from another star. This has never been possible to do due to the enormous ...

Interstellar comet Borisov likely comes from a red dwarf star

Apr 21, 2020 (SPX)

With the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, researchers observed vapors rich in carbon monoxide breathing out from Borisov as it veered ever closer to the S...

Hubble probes alien comet's chemical makeup

Apr 21, 2020 (SPX)

Borisov is the first known comet to originate from a different star system than our own. Measurements find that it has an unusual abundance of carbon monoxide l...

Impacts on Asteroids Produce Regolith, Erase Small Craters

Apr 20, 2020 (SPX)

The impact of small bodies hitting an asteroid pulverizes its surface, making new regolith, while seismic shaking produced by the impact causes older regolith t...

Fragmentation of Comet ATLAS observed on the First Crowd-Sourced Pictures from Citizen Astronomers

Apr 20, 2020 (SPX)

Discovered in December, Comet ATLAS was expected to become the brightest comet of 2020, visible to the naked eye. Several days ago, however, astronomers began t...

Seeing asteroids in the dark

Apr 16, 2020 (ESA)

Hera - named after the Greek goddess of marriage - will be humankind's first probe to rendezvous with a binary asteroid system, a little understood class making...

One step closer to touching Asteroid Bennu

Apr 16, 2020 (SPX)

The four-hour Checkpoint rehearsal took the spacecraft through the first two of the sampling sequence's four maneuvers: the orbit departure burn and the Checkpo...

One hundred lunar asteroid collisions confirmed by second telescope

Apr 15, 2020 (ESA)

Earth is constantly bombarded by natural space debris - fragments of comets and asteroids, also known as meteoroids. The majority burn up in our atmosphere, but...

Rehearsal Time for NASA's Asteroid Sampling Spacecraft

Apr 13, 2020 (SPX)

On Apr. 14, the mission will pursue its first practice run - officially known as "Checkpoint" rehearsal - which will also place the spacecraft the closest it's ...

Journey to a metallic world called Psyche

Apr 08, 2020 (SPX)

While we'll have to wait until the spacecraft arrives at Psyche in 2026 to fully investigate the properties of this unique asteroid, researchers are using the l...

Researchers zero in on Near-Earth Asteroid deflection simulations ahead of breakthrough mission

Apr 06, 2020 (Sputnik)

Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California have moved further in their efforts to simulate how they might deflect celestial ...

Astronomers reveal source of 'red sign' in ancient Japanese literature

Mar 31, 2020 (UPI)

In written accounts, witnesses speculated about the cosmic origins of the "red sign," but until now, the phenomenon's true identity was a mystery. In a new stud...

Modern science reveals ancient secret in Japanese literature

Mar 31, 2020 (SPX)

They published their results on March 31, 2020 in the Sokendai Review of Culture and Social Studies. "It is the oldest Japanese astronomical record of a 'red si...

Killer asteroid hunt in jeopardy, new study claims

Mar 19, 2020 (Sputnik)

A well-known astronomer and satellite tracker has voiced concerns that efforts to scan the skies for potentially dangerous near-Earth asteroids might be in jeop...

Asteroid Ryugu likely link in planetary formation

Mar 17, 2020 (SPX)

Infrared images acquired by Hayabusa2 have now been published in the scientific journal Nature. They show that the asteroid consists almost entirely of highly p...

Ammonium salts found on Rosetta's comet

Mar 16, 2020 (ESA)

The new study, led by Olivier Poch of Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, France, and published in the journal Science, adds to the complem...

Puzzle about nitrogen solved thanks to cometary analogues

Mar 13, 2020 (SPX)

One way to determine the composition of asteroids and comets is to study the sunlight reflected by them, since the materials on their surface absorb sunlight at...

Bennu's boulders shine as beacons for NASA's OSIRIS-REx

Mar 10, 2020 (SPX)

Using these hazardous boulders as signposts, the mission team developed a new precision navigation method to overcome the challenge. The OSIRIS-REx team had ori...

Over 9,000 asteroids feasible for mining may help ignite new space race

Mar 10, 2020 (Sputnik)

Mankind's efforts to study and conquer the distant reaches of outer space may be fueled by minerals and elements hidden in asteroids, the Daily Star reports cit...