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Best of both worlds: asteroids and massive mergers

Aug 19, 2019 (SPX)

The University of Arizona's Steward Observatory has partnered with the Catalina Sky Survey, which searches for near-Earth asteroids from atop Mount Lemmon, in a...

Scientists to use near-Earth object telescope to observe cosmic mergers

Aug 16, 2019 (UPI)

"Catalina Sky Survey has all of this infrastructure for their asteroid survey," Michael Lundquist, postdoctoral research associate at the University of Arizona,...

Largest impact crater in the US, buried for 35 million years

Aug 15, 2019 (SPX)

While the resulting "Chesapeake Bay impact crater" is now completely buried, it was discovered in the early 1990s by scientific drilling. It now ranks as the la...

Four Candidate Sites Selected for Asteroid Sample Collection

Aug 13, 2019 (SPX)

Since its arrival in December 2018, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has mapped the entire asteroid in order to identify the safest and most accessible spots for the s...

Critical Observation Made on During First Night of Return to Operations

Aug 13, 2019 (SPX)

Observations of the near-Earth asteroid 2006 QV89 made on August 11 with the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) have ruled out any potential future impact th...

Asteroid's features to be named after mythical birds

Aug 09, 2019 (SPX)

OSIRIS-REx is NASA's first mission to bring a sample from an asteroid back to Earth. The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been mapping Bennu's surface since its arriva...

Asteroid's surprise close approach illustrates need for more eyes on the sky

Aug 05, 2019 (ESA)

The 100 m-wide asteroid dubbed '2019 OK' was detected just days before it passed Earth, although archival records from sky surveys show it had previously been o...

Aquariids peak on Monday starts month of meteor showers

Jul 29, 2019 (UPI)

The Delta Aquariids will begin to peak on Monday night -- the most visible period of time will be early Tuesday morning, between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. -- during whi...

What gives meteorites their shape

Jul 23, 2019 (SPX)

The progression, discovered through a series of replication experiments in New York University's Applied Mathematics Lab, involves melting and erosion during fl...

Speeding up science on near-earth asteroids

Jul 17, 2019 (SPX)

The WSU scientists improved the software used to track thousands of near-Earth asteroids and comets, which are defined as being within 121 million miles or abou...

ESA confirms asteroid will miss Earth in 2019

Jul 17, 2019 (ESA)

In the first known case of ruling out an asteroid impact through a 'non-detection', ESA and the European Southern Observatory have concluded that asteroid 2006 ...

MASCOT Confirms What Scientists Have Long Suspected

Jul 17, 2019 (SPX)

Researchers at the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fuer Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR) have come to this conclusion in a scientific paper published in the...

Japan's Hayabusa2 probe makes 'perfect' touchdown on asteroid

Jul 11, 2019 (AFP)

"We've collected a part of the solar system's history," project manager Yuichi Tsuda said at a jubilant press conference hours after the successful landing was ...

Hayabusa-makes completes second asteroid touchdown to collect samples

Jul 11, 2019 (UPI)

"The state of the spacecraft is normal and the touchdown sequence was performed as scheduled," the mission announced on Twitter. "Project Manager Tsuda has decl...

Japan's asteroid probe Hayabusa2 set for final touchdown

Jul 10, 2019 (AFP)

"At 9:58, we made a 'Go' decision for the Hayabusa2 probe's second touchdown," the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said in a statement. By early after...

Astronomers spot kilometer-wide asteroid with record-short year

Jul 09, 2019 (UPI)

Upon its closest approach to the sun, the asteroid, dubbed 2019 LF6, moves inside Mercury's orbit. On its aphelion, the portion of the asteroid's orbit farthest...

Zwicky Transient Facility Spots Asteroid with Shortest Year

Jul 09, 2019 (SPX)

In its orbit, the asteroid swings out beyond Venus and, at times, comes closer in than Mercury, which circles the Sun every 88 days. 2019 LF6 is one of only 20 ...

How Historic Jupiter Comet Impact Led to Planetary Defense

Jul 02, 2019 (SPX)

The SL9 impact gave scientists the opportunity to study a new celestial phenomenon. It was also a wake-up call that big collisions still occur in the solar syst...

'Oumuamua Is Not an Alien Spacecraft

Jul 02, 2019 (SPX)

The object is now usually known as 'Oumuamua, a name chosen in consultation with Hawaiian language experts Ka'iu Kimura and Larry Kimura, which reflects the way...

When CubeSats meet asteroid

Jul 01, 2019 (ESA)

"We've customised an existing drop tower and rigged it up with a system of pulleys and counterweights in order to simulate a low gravity environment," explains ...