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NASA Tracked Small Asteroid Before It Broke Up in Atmosphere
Jun 28, 2019 (JPL)
Could a tiny, harmless object that broke up in the atmosphere in a bright flash be connected to a just-received automated alert of a potential near-Earth astero...
Tunguska inspires new, more optimistic asteroid predictions
Jun 27, 2019 (SPX)
The research revealed that such relatively small but regionally devastating impacts happen on the order of millennia - not centuries, as previously thought. In ...
UH Team Successfully Locates Incoming Asteroid
Jun 27, 2019 (SPX)
The 4-meter-diameter asteroid, named 2019 MO, was observed four times in a span of 30 minutes by the ATLAS Maunaloa facility, just after midnight Hawaii time on...
NRL researchers find insights into the formation of the solar system in ancient comet dust
Jun 19, 2019 (SPX)
NRL scientists Rhonda Stroud and Bradley De Gregorio contributed to a paper describing the find, which published in Nature Astronomy, April 15. To examine these...
Psyche Mission Has a Metal World in Its Sights
Jun 12, 2019 (JPL)
"The Psyche team is not only elated that we have the go-ahead for Phase C, more importantly we are ready," said Principal Investigator Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Ar...
Ahuna Mons on Ceres: A New and Unusual Type of Volcanic Activity
Jun 12, 2019 (SPX)
A study involving scientists from the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) has now solved the mystery of how Ahuna Mons, as the mountain is called, was formed, using g...
Uncovering the Hidden History of a Giant Asteroid
Jun 12, 2019 (SPX)
In a remarkable feat of astronomical detective work, scientists have determined the precise timing of a large-scale collision on Vesta that helps explain the as...
Hera asteroid mission's brain to be radiation-hard and failure-proof
Jun 12, 2019 (ESA)
Designed to operate up to 490 million km away from Earth and withstanding four years of harsh radiation exposure, Hera's computer must run smoothly without lock...
Scientists find largest meteorite impact in the British Isles
Jun 10, 2019 (UPI)
Scientists first identified evidence of the impact in 2008, but they were unable to pin down the exact location of the crater. Over the last decade, researchers...
VLT Observes Passing Double Asteroid Hurtling by Earth
Jun 04, 2019 (SPX)
The International Asteroid Warning Network (IAWN) coordinated a cross-organisational observing campaign of the asteroid 1999 KW4 as it flew by Earth, reaching a...
GomSpace to design world's first stand-alone nanosatellite asteroid rendezvous mission
May 27, 2019 (SPX)
Under the contract GomSpace will be in charge of preliminary design of the mission, spacecraft and implementation planning. A "12U" CubeSat spacecraft configura...
Oldest meteorite collection on Earth found in one of the driest places
May 27, 2019 (SPX)
"Our purpose in this work was to see how the meteorite flux to Earth changed over large timescales - millions of years, consistent with astronomical phenomena,"...
A family of comets reopens the debate about the origin of Earth's water
May 24, 2019 (SPX)
According to the standard theory, the Earth is thought to have formed from the collision of small celestial bodies known as planetesimals. Since such bodies wer...
NASA Invites Public to Help Asteroid Mission Choose Sample Site
May 23, 2019 (SPX)
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has been at Bennu since Dec. 3, 2018, mapping the asteroid in detail, while the mission team searches for a sample collection site tha...
Curtin planetary scientist unravels mystery of Egyptian desert glass
May 21, 2019 (SPX)
Published in leading journal Geology, the research examined tiny grains of the mineral zircon in samples of Libyan desert glass, which formed 29 million years a...
Bedbugs survived the impact event that wiped out the dinosaurs
May 16, 2019 (UPI)
DNA analysis of some 30 different bedbug species showed the insect has been around for at least 115 million years. Previously, scientists suggested bedbugs emer...
'EXTREME Crunch' Looming if No Limits Put on Space Mining 'Gold Rush'
May 15, 2019 (Sputnik)
A team of scientists have come up with a proposal, whereby a so-called "space wilderness" - over 85 percent of the solar system - should be kept intact in order...
First planetary defense technology demonstration to collide with asteroid in 2022
May 07, 2019 (SPX)
The asteroid poses no threat to Earth and is an ideal test target: measuring the change in how the smaller asteroid orbits about the larger asteroid in a binary...
Killer asteroid flattens New York in simulation exercise
May 04, 2019 (AFP)
Despite a simulated eight years of preparation, scientists and engineers tried but failed to deflect the killer asteroid. The exercise has become a regular even...
Hera's APEX CubeSat will reveal the stuff that asteroids are made of
May 03, 2019 (ESA)
ESA's proposed Hera mission for planetary defence will explore the twin Didymos asteroids, but it will not go there alone: it will also serve as mothership for ...
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