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First official names given to features on asteroid Bennu
Mar 09, 2020 (SPX)
Benben Saxum and 11 other features on the asteroid are the first to receive official Bennu feature names approved by the International Astronomical Union (IAU),...
Fire from the sky
Mar 09, 2020 (SPX)
But before the lake formed, archaeologists were able to carefully extract and describe much material, including parts of houses, food and tools - an abundance o...
OSIRIS-REx Swoops Over Sample Site Nightingale
Mar 05, 2020 (SPX)
To perform the 5-hour flyover, the spacecraft left its 0.6-mile (1-km) safe-home orbit and aimed its science instruments toward the 52-ft (16-m) wide sample sit...
An iron-clad asteroid
Mar 03, 2020 (SPX)
The Japanese space agency JAXA sent the Hayabusa probe to Itokawa, which collected soil samples and brought them safely back to Earth - for the first time in th...
Iron 'whiskers' found covering Itokawa asteroid samples
Feb 27, 2020 (UPI)
In 2005, JAXA's Hayabusa probe hunted down and landed on the near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa. Five years later, the spacecraft returned to Earth with soil sam...
Turbulent times revealed on Asteroid 4 Vesta
Feb 27, 2020 (SPX)
Research lead Professor Fred Jourdan, from Curtin University's school of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said Vesta is of tremendous interest to scientists trying...
How to deflect an asteroid
Feb 20, 2020 (SPX)
Observations of the asteroid, known as 99942 Apophis, for the Egyptian god of chaos, once suggested that its 2029 flyby would take it through a gravitational ke...
First research results on the 'spectacular meteorite fall' of Flensburg
Feb 19, 2020 (SPX)
Dieter Heinlein, coordinator of the German part of the European Fireball Network at the German Aerospace Center in Augsburg, directly recognized the stone as a ...
OSIRIS-REx Osprey Flyover
Feb 14, 2020 (SPX)
The OLA instrument was scheduled to provide ranging data to the spacecraft's PolyCam imager, which would allow the camera to focus while imaging the area around...
Leiden astronomers discover potential near-earth objects
Feb 13, 2020 (SPX)
Using a supercomputer, the researchers integrated the orbits of the Sun and its planets forward in time for 10,000 years. After that, they traced the orbits bac...
Supercharged light pulverises asteroids, study finds
Feb 11, 2020 (SPX)
Electromagnetic radiation from stars at the end of their 'giant branch' phase - lasting just a few million years before they collapse into white dwarfs - would ...
Meteorite chunk contains unexpected evidence of presolar grains
Jan 29, 2020 (SPX)
Presolar grains - tiny bits of solid interstellar material formed before the sun was born - are sometimes found in primitive meteorites. But a new analysis reve...
Roscosmos to rename Russia's asteroid detection system to 'Milky Way'
Jan 29, 2020 (Sputnik)
"We have decided to rename the system to 'Milky Way.' As of today, it is called the NES ASPOS [Warning Automated System of Hazardous Situations in near-Earth Sp...
OSIRIS-REx completes closest flyover of sample site Nightingale
Jan 23, 2020 (SPX)
To perform the pass, the spacecraft left its 0.75-mile (1.2-km) safe home orbit and flew an almost 11-hour transit over the asteroid, aiming its science instrum...
We found the world's oldest asteroid strike in Western Australia. It might have triggered a global thaw
Jan 23, 2020 (SPX)
Our new study puts a precise age on the cataclysmic impact - showing Yarrabubba is the oldest known crater and dating it at the right time to trigger the end of...
The Salt of the Comet
Jan 22, 2020 (SPX)
More than 30 years later, researchers have solved this mystery thanks to a happy accident. This is a result of the analysis of data from the Bernese mass spectr...
Outbound comets are likely of alien origin
Jan 20, 2020 (SPX)
Not all comets follow closed orbits around the Sun. Some fly through the Solar System at high speed before heading out to interstellar space, never to return. A...
Active asteroid unveils fireball identity
Jan 17, 2020 (SPX)
"We uncovered the fireball's true identity," says Toshihiro Kasuga, paper author and visiting scientist at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and Ky...
Meteorite contains the oldest material on Earth: 7-billion-year-old stardust
Jan 14, 2020 (SPX)
"This is one of the most exciting studies I've worked on," says Philipp Heck, a curator at the Field Museum, associate professor at the University of Chicago, a...
Dancing debris, moveable landscape shape Comet 67P
Jan 13, 2020 (SPX)
Photography from the Rosetta mission reveals dancing gravel, whirling icy debris and transient, movable "depressions" on the smooth terrain of Comet 67P/Churyum...
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