IRON AND ICE

News About Asteroids And Comets

2,240 articles

Karla crater confirmed to be an impact structure
Sep 24, 2019 (SPX)
Previous research there took place in the 1980s. This time, Russian and French scientists conducted new inquiries. "During our field research near Buinsk, Tatar...
NASA blames bad weather for failure to warn about approaching hazardous asteroid
Sep 23, 2019 (Sputnik)
Internal emails reveal that NASA discussed 2019 OK "because there may be media coverage" and only 30 minutes before it whizzed past the Earth. The size of a foo...
Comet gateway discovered to inner solar system
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
In a study to be published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters this week, scientist Gal Sarid and co-authors describe the discovery of an orbital "gateway" thr...
Gigantic asteroid collision boosted biodiversity on Earth
Sep 23, 2019 (SPX)
In the last few decades, researchers have begun to understand that evolution of life on Earth also depends on astronomical events. One example of this is when t...
Comet's collapsing cliffs and bouncing boulders
Sep 23, 2019 (ESA)
Rosetta operated at Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko between August 2014 and September 2016, collecting data on the comet's dust, gas and plasma environment, its...
International space agencies to test-crash spacecraft into asteroid
Sep 20, 2019 (Sputnik)
Scientists are planning to launch and crash NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft into an asteroid to test whether the impact is able to def...
AIDA collaboration highlights case for planetary defense
Sep 19, 2019 (SPX)
The AIDA collaboration encompasses two missions that will demonstrate and evaluate the 'kinetic impactor' technique at the near-Earth binary asteroid, Didymos. ...
Gemini observatory captures multicolor image of first-ever interstellar comet
Sep 16, 2019 (SPX)
"This image was possible because of Gemini's ability to rapidly adjust observations and observe objects like this, which have very short windows of visibility,"...
Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor
Sep 13, 2019 (JPL)
The new comet, C/2019 Q4, is still inbound toward the Sun, but it will remain farther than the orbit of Mars and will approach no closer to Earth than about 190...
Two Asteroids to Safely Fly by Earth
Sep 13, 2019 (SPX)
"These asteroids have been well observed-once since 2000 and the other since 2010-and their orbits are very well known," said Lindley Johnson, planetary defense...
A burst of asteroid activity in Europe
Sep 11, 2019 (ESA)
Such intense levels of international scientific collaboration are driven in part by the fact that an asteroid impact could cause devastating effects on Earth. B...
Tsunami Followed Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Impact
Sep 11, 2019 (SPX)
The research, published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), was carried out by a scientific team that drilled deep beneat...
Europe and US teaming up for asteroid deflection
Sep 04, 2019 (ESA)
This combined mission is known as the Asteroid Impact Deflection Assessment, or AIDA for short. Its purpose is to deflect the orbit of the smaller body of the d...
OSIRIS-REx's final four sample site candidates in 3D
Aug 30, 2019 (SPX)
It illustrates the location of each site on Bennu, the topography of each site, and the potential sampling regions that the spacecraft will target, which are 10...
UCF Student Working as Image Analyst for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Recovery Mission
Aug 28, 2019 (SPX)
Curled up in her favorite pajamas with her laptop in her off-campus apartment, the 25-year-old from South Florida, spent about 10 hours a week analyzing boulder...
Australia set to welcome JAXA's Hayabusa2
Aug 27, 2019 (SPX)
JAXA's asteroid explorer, Hayabusa2, is on an asteroid sample-return mission that started on 3 December 2014, from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center. The 3.5 yea...
Arecibo Observatory Gets $19M NASA Grant to Help Protect Earth from Asteroids
Aug 27, 2019 (SPX)
NASA awarded the University of Central Florida (which manages the site on behalf of National Science Foundation) the four-year grant to observe and characterize...
The near-Earth asteroid Ryugu - a fragile cosmic 'rubble pile'
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
It touched down on the surface for the first time six minutes after deployment, before coming to a halt 11 minutes later, like a dice on a board game moving in ...
Monster Asteroid Nearly Twice as Big as London's Shard Tower Heading Toward Earth - Report
Aug 23, 2019 (Sputnik)
A monster asteroid larger than the world's largest buildings, including London's the Shard, will be passing near the Earth at a speed of 23,112 km per hour on 1...
New images from asteroid probe yield clues on planet formation
Aug 22, 2019 (AFP)
The German-French Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout (MASCOT) was dropped off by Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft on October 3, 2018, free-falling from a height of 41 me...
Buy Advertising About Us Editorial & Other Enquiries Privacy statement
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.