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NASA's Lucy mission confirms discovery of Eurybates Satellite
Jan 10, 2020 (SPX)
Launching in October 2021, Lucy will be the first space mission to study the Trojan asteroids, a population of small bodies orbiting the Sun "leading" and "trai...
Dark skies to host Quadrantid meteor shower
Jan 03, 2020 (UPI)
The Quadrantids arrive each year during the first week of January. They often put on a great show, featuring up to 100 meteors per hour during the shower's peak...
Scientists find huge meteor crater in northeast China
Dec 27, 2019 (XNA)
Led by the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the findings were published online on the Chinese Science Bulletin on Tues...
Fireballs: mail from space
Dec 20, 2019 (SPX)
At the same time as we are equipping expensive space missions, we have valuable extraterrestrial specimens arriving on Earth with information about the solar sy...
Asteroid collisions trigger cascading formation of subfamilies, study concludes
Dec 20, 2019 (SPX)
Other asteroid groups formed as a result of rotational fission, which happens when a rapidly spinning body reaches critical rotation speed and splits into relat...
Ancient events are still impacting mammals worldwide
Dec 19, 2019 (SPX)
"Our study shows that mammal biodiversity in the tropics and subtropics today is still being shaped by ancient human events and climate changes," said study lea...
NASA selects site for asteroid sample collection on Bennu
Dec 13, 2019 (SPX)
The Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-Rex) mission team concluded a site designated "Nightingale" -...
Interstellar comet 2I Borisov swings past Sun
Dec 13, 2019 (SPX)
Telescopes around the world have been watching the fleeting visitor. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has provided the sharpest views as the comet skirts by our Su...
Russia working on means to destroy dangerous asteroids hurtling toward Earth
Dec 13, 2019 (Sputnik)
Russian scientists are researching technologies which could allow humanity to counteract the threat of dangerous space rocks, Igor Bakaras, head of the Informat...
NRL-camera aboard NASA spacecraft confirms asteroid phenomenon
Dec 12, 2019 (SPX)
Karl Battams, a computational scientist in NRL's Space Science Division, discussed the results from the camera called Wide-Field Imager for Solar Probe (WISPR) ...
OSIRIS-REx engineers pull off a daring rescue of asteroid mission
Dec 11, 2019 (SPX)
But early that morning, the team learned that a telecommunications facility near Madrid had suffered an unexpected network outage. Part of NASA's Deep Space Net...
Looking Toward Work on NASA's Potential Asteroid-Hunting Space Telescope
Dec 11, 2019 (SPX)
Professor Amy Mainzer of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona will provide technical leadership for the projected mission, to be in p...
KinetX team helps in understanding particles ejected from the surface of Asteroid Bennu
Dec 10, 2019 (SPX)
The mission and science team are led by OSIRIS-REx Principal Investigator Dante Lauretta of the University of Arizona. The results of this collaboration are pub...
OSIRIS-REx mission explains Bennu's mysterious particle events
Dec 06, 2019 (SPX)
The OSIRIS-REx team first observed a particle ejection event in images captured by the spacecraft's navigation cameras taken on Jan. 6, just a week after the sp...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx in the midst of site selection
Dec 05, 2019 (SPX)
OSIRIS-REx is NASA's first asteroid sample return mission, so this decision of a sample collection site is key for asteroid operations and mission success. Afte...
TESS catches a natural comet outburst in unprecedented detail
Dec 04, 2019 (SPX)
This is the most complete and detailed observation to date of the formation and dissipation of a naturally-occurring comet outburst. The team members reported t...
Researcher calls on amateur astronomers to help with mission to prevent future asteroid impacts
Nov 30, 2019 (SPX)
Professor Alan Fitzsimmons from the Astrophysics Research Centre at Queen's is a senior mission advisor for the European Space Agency's (ESA) Hera spacecraft. H...
Impact crater data analysis of Ryugu asteroid illuminates complicated geological history
Nov 28, 2019 (SPX)
A research group led by Assistant Professor Naoyuki Hirata of the Department of Planetology at Kobe University's Graduate School of Science revealed 77 craters ...
Amateur astronomers: help choose asteroid flybys for Hera
Nov 27, 2019 (ESA)
"Asteroid research is one area of astronomy where amateur observers continue to make an essential contribution," says Prof. Alan Fitzsimmons of Queen's Universi...
Wolfe Creek Crater younger than previously thought
Nov 22, 2019 (SPX)
Wolfe Creek Crater is situated on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert in northern Western Australia. It is the second largest crater on Earth from which meteorit...
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